On August 29-30, 2007, six AGM-129 cruise missiles armed with W80-1 thermonuclear warheads were loaded onto a B-52H bomber at ...

They dig a hole or have a bunker in place and they go underground,” Colorado School of Mines Professor Thomas Albrecht said ...

Our account of the strong nuclear force is full of imaginative terms. Six flavors of quarks have color charges of red, green and blue, which dictate how they bind to form particles like protons and ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The United States has released footage showcasing its nuclear ...

Hundreds of Minuteman III nuclear missile silos dot the landscape from Colorado up to the Canadian border, but a major ...

The United States confronts a bewildering national security dilemma: For the first time in the nuclear age, Washington faces not one but two nuclear-peer competitors—adversaries with arsenals ...

President Trump said on Thursday that the U.S. would begin testing nuclear weapons again for the first time in decades. “We’ve halted many years ago, but with others doing testing I think it’s ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The United States recently conducted a war game to test the readiness ...

Back in the 1930s, physicists were doing experiments involving what they called "beta decay." They observed that an element would suddenly spit out a fast-moving electron, and once it was done, it ...