See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. THE FIRST NUCLEAR reactor on earth went critical 2 billion years ago in ...
The reason why the USAF kept nuclear armed B-52s on continual rotation just outside of Soviet airspace...for nearly a decade.
After the first Soviet nuclear detonation in 1949, Moscow pushed hard to create a more practical and efficient weapon. The answer was RDS-3, a bomb with a mixed uranium-plutonium core that conserved ...
The last two months have seen the anniversaries of the two worst civilian nuclear catastrophes in history. Indeed, as of Sunday, April 26, it has been 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster, which ...
A major work that richly deserves attention and begins not in 1945 but rather earlier in the century, both with the background to invention and with a political competition to gain and develop ideas ...
MOSCOW, Nov 10 (Reuters) - A Soviet scientist has denied being the brains behind Iran's nuclear programme, despite U.S. media reports that he helped put Tehran on the threshold of making an atomic ...