Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive can conjure up images of ...

As President Donald Trump's second administration continued its effort to swiftly reshape the federal government, a union representing foreign service officers at the U.S. Agency for International ...

For years, France buried radioactive waste from nuclear tests it conducted in the Algerian desert. And for decades, it ...

A chilling map from the 1980s shows how up to 75% of the US could be wiped out in a nuclear war, with scientists using a ...

The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader said Friday that negotiations with America “are not intelligent, ...

Though only some 92 pounds of weapons-grade uranium is reportedly required to create one nuclear bomb, meaning Iran, if it further enriched its uranium, could possess enough material to develop ...

The latest edition of our Top 10 in Data Journalism column also highlights the risks of nuclear war, drought in the Amazon, ...

“That is the president’s decision, and the president is the only person in the United States who has the legal authority to order the use of nuclear weapons.” “If one looks closely at press images of ...

Such facilities could allow China to improve its nuclear weapons designs. For context, both China and the United States are signatories to this treaty. Notably, this development coincides with ...

The United States ... weapons that weave an unpredictable path within the atmosphere, making their trajectory far harder to anticipate. And the Russians boast of an undersea autonomous nuclear ...

According to estimates from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in 2024, the United States possesses 3,708 nuclear warheads, while Russia has 4,380, excluding retired weapons.