The post-war international order may be tearing apart at the seams and international law is increasingly looking like a ...

Willard Libby is one of the most influential radioactivity scientists of the last 100 years. He discovered radiocarbon dating, which is the practice of measuring the amounts of carbon-14 in ...

Officials said there was no safety issue from the glitch that occurred after TEPCO restarted the No. 6 reactor at the ...

The setback occurred hours after one of the world’s largest nuclear complexes restarted, ending more than a decade of ...

Small nuclear reactors are pitched as cheaper, safer, faster and easier to finance than their conventional counterparts. Hype around them is building fast, but some experts warn it ignores fundamental ...

The restart of the world's largest nuclear power plant was suspended in Japan Thursday just hours after the process began, ...

While the Allies raced toward Hiroshima, Germany pursued its own nuclear project under Werner Heisenberg. Yet the so-called Uranium Club never came close to a weapon. This episode investigates how ...

COMMENTARY: The intentional taking of an innocent life is always gravely wrong — in war or in peace — and Hiroshima forces us ...

Hiroshima was destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945, yet today it is a thriving city. Chernobyl, on the other hand, remains ...

Hayawo Kiyama of Los Osos was fishing with his aunt when lightning lit up the sky: “It was wide and thick but without sound, ...

Harry Truman knew little about the plans to use atomic weapons when he took office. By that time there was little he could do ...