No reliable way currently exists to detect and defuse a nuclear bomb in space. Danagoulian proposes a constellation of small ...

The Outer Space Treaty bans nuclear weapons in orbit—but we currently have no way to verify that satellites aren't carrying ...

The Van Allen radiation belts are swarms of high-energy charged particles trapped in the web of Earth's magnetic field, many ...

Ahead of the International Day against Nuclear Tests on August 29 2018, we met up with British atomic veterans who were ...

Space-based nuclear weapons are a serious matter, and one that deserves the very highest level of national attention.

When Iran’s covert nuclear program came to international attention over two decades ago, Tehran insisted that its intentions were peaceful and that it had no plans to develop weapons. The country’s ...

On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...