The two lawmakers questioned the necessity of the nuclear weapons agency's plutonium pit strategy in a letter exclusively ...
A lost nuclear device in the Himalayas, filled with plutonium from a secret 1965 CIA-India mission to spy on China, ...
The Navy was chided on Monday for failing to report elevated levels of plutonium for nearly a year. But those levels, it ...
At the height of the Cold War in 1965, China had just tested an atomic bomb. The CIA wanted to spy on Chinese missile tests ...
America’s last nuclear detonation was nothing special. Smaller than the bomb that killed 73,000 people in Nagasaki, it exploded 1,397 feet below the Nevada desert. It shook the ground, created a ...
Indian and American climbers were prepared with their cargo, an antenna, cables and a 13 kg generator called the SNAP-19C.
WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The Trump administration plans to make available about 20 metric tons of Cold War-era plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to U.S. power companies as a potential ...
The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced it has succeeded in safely processing a can of plutonium residue into a ...
Nuclear weapons represent the pinnacle of military danger, capable of instantly wiping out millions and reducing cities to dust. While the term "atomic bomb" often refers to a basic fission device, ...