How difficult is it for a country to develop a nuclear bomb? Nuclear experts weighed in. Photo from the Atomic Archive Last month, President Donald Trump ordered U.S. airstrikes on several of Iran’s ...

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 ...

Advanced centrifuges such as the IR-9 drive up the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation significantly. Fortunately, the ...

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.

Are you preparing for UPSC CSE Prelims 2026? Check your progress and revise your topics through this quiz on Science and Technology.

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 ...