In November 1955, the Soviet Union carried out the world’s first airdrop test of a true hydrogen bomb when a Tu-16 released ...

Iran and Russia have both alleged that a projectile struck the grounds of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in the Islamic ...

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President Trump declared that Tehran had “rejected every opportunity to renounce their nuclear ambitions, and we can’t take ...

A mission to seize or destroy Iran’s nuclear material would be one of the riskiest military operations in modern American ...

Until just a few years ago, few experts would have predicted that these nations – all allies of Washington – might one day ...

In 1939, German scientists Otto Hahn (later a Nobel laureate in Chemistry) and Fritz Strassmann discovered the effect of ...

By Llewellyn King The story goes that a weakling gets sand kicked in his face on the beach. He then joins a gym, pumps iron and returns to the beach, where all he has to do is flex his new ...

In October 2022, Russian forces were on the brink of collapse in Ukraine, and it was unclear if major Russian army units could even evacuate back across the Dnipro River to safety. Discontent was ...

Tue, Mar 10, 2026 The formidable nuclear arsenal of the US has misplaced some of its weaponry, losing its atomic bombs to the ocean depths - for anyone to discover. As Donald Trump threatens to ...

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