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The Trinity test—the detonation of the world's first nuclear bomb—was conducted 80 years ago as part of the Manhattan Project.

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North Korea appears unlikely to deliberately escalate tensions in the coming year as the regime will prioritize domestic development. However, its nuclear policy, burgeoning relations with Russia, and ...

This July 2025 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists examines a number of similar potential flashpoints—around the world, in the skies above, and even in cyberspace—that, if activated, could ...

Eric S. Singer is a cultural historian and author of “Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb,” a young readers edition of Kai Bird ...

Yet mainstream US media outlets and partisan politics are routinely oblivious to threat of oblivion.

We must rid ourselves of nuclear weapons or lose life as we know it on this planet, the Hampton Roads Campaign to Abolish ...

For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make ...

A team of researchers have made progress in understanding how some of the universe’s heaviest particles behave under extreme ...

The 1980s witnessed mass demonstrations demanding a nuclear freeze. Today, the threat of nuclear war is beginning to enter ...

The framework under discussion includes predefined intelligence triggers, joint threat assessments, and an agreed-upon process for authorizing strikes if Iran resumes enrichment activity or ...