In the eighty years since of the atomic bombings of Japan dozens of opportunities to halt the macabre march of nuclear ...

Plutonium is also the main fissile material in nuclear weapons, but it was revealed that ordinary people could purchase plutonium on a US website. In August 2023, an Australian man named Emmanuel ...

July 16, 1945, marked a turning point in history with the first nuclear test, named Trinity, in the New Mexico desert in the ...

Amid growing international chaos, it should come as no surprise that nuclear dangers are increasing. The latest indication is ...

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

The legal conundrum of whether Attorney General Alan Wilson should have awarded a contract that resulted in a legal fee of ...

Plutonium 'pits' and Small Modular Reactors are all part of Energy Secretary Chris Wright's early goals for his department.

The bulk of the DOE’s nuclear work is done by around 60,000 contract workers. The people who build the missiles, dig the silos, and construct submarines are people working for a federal contractor.

In rather triumphant tones, the DOJ press release described the man’s capture and his crimes, but left one critical question unanswered: where did the plutonium, said to be “weapons grade”, really ...

In 1952, the Atomic Energy Commission began operations at Rocky Flats as a federal atomic weapons facility, producing plutonium triggers for hydrogen bombs. (A hydrogen bomb or H-bomb uses fission in ...