Across the United States, the Cold War left a toxic inheritance: sprawling sites poisoned by the pursuit of nuclear power and ...

Production of the WWII atomic bomb was “need to know”, limited to physicists and engineers for security.  The two fission bombs immediately killed about a quarter million Japanese.

Richard Garwin drew up the plans for the hydrogen bomb and spent seven decades advising presidents on scientific matters ...

The Department of Energy has picked Brian Harkins the acting manager of the Hanford site in Eastern Washington just weeks after naming him acting deputy manager. The former DOE Hanford manager, Brian ...

The shock waves, blast, heat, and radiation from a hydrogen bomb have a larger reach than those from an atomic bomb. A hydrogen bomb could wipe out entire cities and kill hundreds to thousands of ...

Pantex has completed the first B61-13 nuclear bomb unit just months after the B61-12’s finale, marking a major step in U.S.

Nagasaki, May 16 (Jiji Press)--Lists of victims who died from the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki were given an airing at the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims in ...

The weapon "will provide the President with additional nuclear options against certain harder and large-area military targets", the DOE said.

Three days after an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, a second bomber flew from Tinian and detonated another atomic bomb over Nagasaki. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and ...