“Supply-side counter proliferation strategies (i.e., trying to deny countries the knowledge, material, and equipment needed to make deliverable nuclear weapons) cannot permanently prevent ...

Ultimately, Oppenheimer’s secretly commissioned study of the threat was unable to rule out the risk of causing mass extinction, and the “destroyer of worlds” lit the match anyway. How could such ...

The U.S. scientists who tested the first atomic bomb, July 16, 1945, took the ultimate gamble of setting the atmosphere on ...

Iran's stockpile of uranium enriched at 60 percent would be enough to make several relatively unsophisticated nuclear weapons ...

and neutron triggers is irreplaceable in the short term—especially if Iran seeks to build a bomb quickly. Among the most high-profile casualties was Fereydoon Abbasi-Devani, a founder of Iran’s ...

The targeted attacks showed Israel’s intelligence prowess, but a new generation of Iranian scientists could blunt the impact.

Why Trump was confident that Iran was building a bomb Israeli intelligence and IAEA reporting suggest earlier U.S. assessments might have been too cautious.

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Donald Trump’s f-bomb outburst Tuesday morning over the botched Iran-Israel ceasefire was due to the two embattled countries “ruining” the president’s “perfect war,” journalist Michael ...

‘Why not an Islamic bomb?’ Pakistan first decided to build a bomb after its larger neighbour had done so. On 18 May 1974 India tested its first nuclear weapon, which it codenamed Smiling Buddha.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is still alive, and still in power. And as far as the rest of the world knows, he still has some 400kg ...