Only one (or possibly two) of the missing bombs was fully assembled at the time it was lost. The total number of confirmed ...

The government’s Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) is the most recent employer to propose scrapping the “defined benefit” scheme based on workers’ final earnings and replace it with ones that rely on ...

The nuclear arsenal is one thing DOGE can’t hack — but the risks of Musk’s Department of Energy access are still real.

Iran’s supreme leader must revoke a fatwa banning the development of nuclear weapons if the regime is to survive, his top military commanders have said. In an extraordinary intervention by leaders of ...

and there is no other way for us.” Kamal Kharazi, an adviser to Khamenei, said in November that the supreme leader’s fatwa was the only constraint on developing nuclear weapons. He said ...

TEHRAN - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Feb 6 that his country was not seeking a nuclear weapon, a day after US President Donald Trump called for a new agreement to prevent it from ...

The Department of Energy tried to clarify why DOGE staffers suddenly got some I.T. access to a department that oversees the U.S. nuclear stockpile ... received a standard background check.

The NNSA was created by Congress in 1999 in order to consolidate several Department of Energy functions under one bureaucratic roof: acquiring fissile material, manufacturing nuclear weapons ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested Tuesday that Ukraine should be given nuclear weapons once the hot phase of the war with Russia is over. This could deter Russia from invading Ukraine ...

The intelligence assessment warned that Iranian weapons engineers and scientists were essentially looking for a shortcut that would enable them to turn their growing stockpile of nuclear fuel into ...

A nuclear weapon could potentially be sent into space to deflect an asteroid heading Earth's way, an astronomer has told Sky News. Dr David Whitehouse said the measure could be taken against a ...

SEOUL, Feb 8 (Reuters) - North Korea said on Saturday its nuclear weapons are not meant for negotiations but are intended for combat use against enemies that threaten its people and world peace ...