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Remember that 1963 comedic caper movie, “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”? Okay, maybe not. It was director Stanley Kramer’s ...

A nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) strike could cripple the U.S. electrical grid and other critical infrastructure for months, an expert warned.

The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that ...

"The IAEA team at the Chernobyl site heard an explosion coming from the New Safe Confinement, which protects the remains of ...

You may think we have too many nuclear weapons. Or you may think we don’t have enough. One thing you most certainly do not think, however, is that we should arbitrarily fire the people who keep these ...

The US has not conducted a real-world test of a nuclear bomb since 1992. After decades of declining nuclear stockpiles, the nuclear agency sees a real possibility that more countries around the ...

DOGE apparently didn’t understand the workers’ role, or how important they are to national security, sources told CNN and ...

There was an explosion at the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine on Friday night. According to Ukrainian ...

Only one (or possibly two) of the missing bombs was fully assembled at the time it was lost. The total number of confirmed ...

The goal wasn’t to see how much damage the nuclear explosions could do — by the early 1960s the military had enough nuclear weapons and enough understanding of their explosive potential ...

The employees, responsible for designing and maintaining U.S. nuclear weapons, were part of a larger wave of mass dismissals, ...