It’s been said that close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. To that, you can also add atomic bombs and nuclear weapons. The problem with the latter is that when you see the flash of an exploding bomb,

As a nuclear expert, this is what I find most worrying about Iran’s weapon capabilities - THE LONGER READ: As the war in Iran fuels speculation over how close it is to developing weapons of mass destruction,

The US has a total of six missing nuclear warheads out of 32 known accidents - with one diver finding a bomb powerful enough to obliterate a city

An Iranian ballistic missile evaded Israeli air defences and hit the town of Dimona, close to the country’s main nuclear facility, early on Saturday night.

After a mid-air collision off Tybee Island in 1958, the military spent decades dredging the coast for a 7,600-pound nuke. It remains buried in the mud.

Talk presented as part of Pressenza's panel titled "Nuclear Weapons, Existential Threats, and Journalism: Looking to the Future" during the 3rd Juntanza

In 1994, astronomers witnessed one of the most dramatic events ever recorded in space when comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter. Traveling at more than 216,000 km/h, the comet broke into 21 fragments that struck the planet over six days,

The US has a total of six unaccounted-for nuclear warheads from 32 documented Broken Arrow accidents - and the detonation of any single one of these warheads could annihilate a city and claim millions

A fourth talk in the Great Decisions series at the Tahlequah Public Library focused on nuclear arms, and why leaders feel the need to build them. Dr. Denis Vovchenko, a professor of history at

A DF-17 road-mobile medium-range ballistic missile is seen during a military parade in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on September 3, 2025. China may want to develop new nuclear warheads for its hypersonic weapons. Late last week, the U.S. leveled an explosive ...