After World War II, the Communist nation worked desperately to build and test its own bomb, terrified of what might happen if it failed. Indeed, a Russian nuclear scientist who attended the Bikini ...

Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful Decision ...

US efforts to develop artificial intelligence systems and the nuclear-energy infrastructure needed to power them are ...

Donald Trump is pushing to resume testing nuclear weapons, leading Vladimir Putin to do the same. The legacy of nuclear tests is devastating.

The way a war was fought changed forever in August of 1945 when the United States detonated the world's first atomic bombs on ...

Should the U.S. and Russia resume nuclear testing? The answer to that question must be a resounding “No.” Yet President ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

Mark Buckner, an ORHS teacher who leads Wildcat Manufacturing, has students remove social media apps from their smartphones ...

Matter with “forbidden” symmetries was once thought to be confined to lab experiments, but is now being found in some of the ...

Today, X-rays are the source of many experiments and medical tests, but it took a long time for humanity to develop proper ...

President Donald Trump ordered the Department of War to resume testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China on Thursday, a practice halted by the U.S. in 1992. The announcement ...

Subatomic physics has shaped both the conduct of war and the treatment of cancer. Joseph Rotblat, who left the Manhattan Project on moral grounds and later advanced radiotherapy, embodies this dual ...