Only one (or possibly two) of the missing bombs was fully assembled at the time it was lost. The total number of confirmed ...

in “Chain Reactions,” on the element that started this atomic revolution—uranium. This is not a book on the physics of this historically important element, and the story of the atom bomb’s ...

Further investigations 2 demonstrated the existence of at least nine radioactive periods, six of which were assigned to elements beyond uranium, and nuclear ... give rise to a chain of ...

So why not the atomic bomb? Nazi Germany ... When slowed down and controlled in a "uranium machine" (nuclear reactor), these chain reactions could generate energy; when uncontrolled, they would ...

Uranium is a crucial mineral for energy and national security—it fuels the nuclear energy that ... to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium . . . [that could] . . . lead to the ...

Inspectors say Iran is dangerously close to making a nuclear weapon. If it goes that route, the B-2 bomber has the stealth and payload needed to knock out buried nuclear sites.

Since mid-2019, Iran has significantly shortened its “breakout time”—the amount of time needed to produce enough weapons-grade highly enriched uranium (HEU) to build a nuclear weapon to mere days. How ...

President Donald Trump is expected to introduce new 25% tariffs on Monday on all steel and aluminium imports into the U.S., ...

The current idea is to vitrify the plutonium – bake it into a ceramic glass, like material – and bury it 1000 metres below in a geological disposal facility (GDF). However, the UK currently possesses ...