The Next Generation Penetrator will eventually replace the 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, featured in ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, accompanied by his wife and daughter, have paid their respects to atomic bombing victims in ...

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima near the end ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Akito met atomic bomb survivors at a nursing care ...

The NNSA's push to build new warhead cores is its "largest and most complex" effort since the end of the Manhattan Project, a ...

Eighty years ago, a weapon was used which would transform modern warfare and the entire world forever. Hiroshima, in Japan, was the target of the first ever nuclear weapon, dropped by the US Air Force ...

A historian has revealed that a university was the first institution to respond to a global call for support after the Japanese city of Hiroshima was destroyed by an American atomic bomb in 1945.

No energy technology has been more revolutionary than nuclear power.

Each day of war risks a strike on sites that could scatter radioactive material. Officials say one laboratory near the front ...

Nearly seven decades ago, the US had a near-nuclear disaster on its own soil. On March 11, 1958, a B-47 Stratojet bomber was flying from Georgia to the UK for training ...

Barbara Kent and a dozen other 13-year-old girls believed nuclear fallout from the Manhattan Project's Trinity test was ...