Nuclear weapons

Nuclear weapons

Nuclear war may keep humanity from finding a ‘theory of everything,’ top physicist says

After winning a Breakthrough Prize, the world’s most lucrative science award, theoretical physicist David Gross is using the moment to warn of nuclear war’s existential threat—and how we can escape it

Trump wants Iran’s ‘nuclear dust.’ Here’s how the U.S. could remove the uranium

President Trump keeps promising to secure Iran’s nuclear “dust,” which is actually a gas

Bypass the Strait of Hormuz with nuclear explosives? The U.S. studied that option in the 1960s

Newt Gingrich raised eyebrows with a social media post about using nuclear bombs to cut a new channel in the Strait of Hormuz. There’s history there

Oil reserves tapped as nuclear assertions face pushback, warming fuels hail, and microbiome affects the brain

From emergency oil reserves to nuclear scrutiny, bigger hail, and research on a connection between the aging gut and the brain

Kendra Pierre-Louis, Dan Vergano, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura

Iran was nowhere close to a nuclear bomb, experts say

Although President Trump has claimed Iran was weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon, much more work was needed for the country to do so

U.S.’s and Israel’s war with Iran leaves uranium stockpiles uncertain

The Trump administration’s war with Iran over its nuclear ambitions raises new questions about the country’s uranium stockpile

Resuming U.S. Nuclear Tests Is Reckless and Dangerous, One Expert Says