Three of the four states surrounding Kansas are home to military installations on a list of potential nuclear missile targets.

A research team is using astrophysical explosions to understand the mysterious forces at work in some of the smallest ...

Last year, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) concluded that both Russia and China are increasingly dependent on nuclear weapons to achieve their national interests. Combined, they are projected to ...

The largest and most destructive nuclear weapons always grab the headlines. Week after week, news items emerge concerning China’s rapid buildup of intercontinental-range nuclear missiles and Russia’s ...

PARIS -- French President Emmanuel Macron, the person with the power to unleash France's nuclear arsenal, will on Monday update French thinking on the potential use of warheads carried on submarines ...

Recovering Iran’s remaining highly enriched uranium stockpile that is believed to be sitting in a storage facility deep underground, an objective the Trump administration has been discussing, would ...

Back in the 1930s, physicists were doing experiments involving what they called "beta decay." They observed that an element would suddenly spit out a fast-moving electron, and once it was done, it ...

There are still strong incentives to negotiate reductions in nuclear arsenals between the United States, Russia, and China. The expiration of the New START agreement this month is a critical and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. US President Donald Trump, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. - Getty Images The expiration of the last remaining nuclear ...

The sponge metaphor first emerged in 1978 when the Air Force’s top general announced a new plan to base cutting-edge nuclear missiles in the Southwest. The “Missile, Experimental,” or MX, a powerful ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones”: an apt depiction of the current discourse and debate of what the world will look like ...