Pyongyang relies on China for 95% of its legitimate trade; hacking, arms deals and remittances also help it stay afloat.

As with every such test launch, the Pentagon stresses that this one was "not in response to world events" and was planned years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

On a dark July morning in 1945, U.S. scientists and military personnel detonated the world's first nuclear bomb in a remote area of New Mexico. The blast unleashed the energy equivalent of 25,000 tons ...

Matter behaves strangely under extreme conditions, and often, remnants of these behaviors are left behind even when conditions return to normal. The Trinity nuclear test in 1945 left behind such ...

Nearly 81 years ago, the first nuclear bomb exploded. The Trinity test, conducted as part of the Manhattan Project in the New Mexico desert, detonated a plutonium bomb that released the energy of 25 ...

Iran nuclear test: Amid escalating tensions between Iran and the United States, an earthquake in northwestern Iran on Friday stirred speculations that the Islamic Republic may have conducted an ...

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Two days after naming its first four participants, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) on April 29 issued a request for applications (RFA) for its Nuclear ...

The Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments test bed - built from the repurposed Experimental Breeder Reactor-II facility at Idaho National Laboratory - is now ready to host its first fuelled ...

NASA announced plans March 24 to develop Space Reactor 1 (SR-1) Freedom, a mission to Mars demonstrating nuclear electric propulsion. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA’s new exploration strategy includes ...

A Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker was seen flying over California while apparently tethered to a B-21 Raider, a stealth bomber with nuclear capabilities that’s still in development, photos and videos show ...