An error by one of the world's greatest scientists derailed Germany's effort to build an atomic bomb during WWII.

Birthday of Joseph Goldstein, American biochemist who received the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that human cells have low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors that ...

Traditional hydrogen bombs work through nuclear fusion, a process where atomic nuclei combine under intense pressure to release energy. However, China’s device does not rely on nuclear fusion.

Kayoko Mori, an 82-year-old Catholic atomic bomb survivor who also met the pope in Hiroshima, said, "Seeing him call for the abolition of nuclear weapons made me feel deeply that he was on our side. I ...

US secretary of state Marco Rubio said in an interview released on Wednesday that Iran must give up all nuclear enrichment if ...

Once protected by its nuclear umbrella, America’s closest allies are now threatened by it and contemplating their own nuclear ...

A national memorial hall in Japan for victims of the atomic bomb plans to hold its annual overseas exhibition in Britain this year. The facility, in the western Japanese city of Nagasaki ...

Iran has since accelerated its nuclear weapons program. Estimates now put Iran within months or even weeks of producing several bombs. A short time later, after a series of escalating threats ...

If South Korea makes a dash for the bomb, Japan will have no choice but to follow suit. Smoke rises above Hiroshima, Japan, after the first atomic bomb was dropped in this Aug. 6, 1945 ...