Once China produced weapons-grade uranium, it assembled its first atomic bomb in as little as three to five weeks. Iran may ...

The solution they came up with in the mid-1950s, codenamed Blue Peacock, was to bury a 10-kiloton nuclear mine in northern ...

The picture has been widely shared for years and purportedly shows the aftermath of the explosion in the Japanese city.

The warplane-dropped nuclear gravity bomb known as the B61 has been fully modernized with a new precision guidance system, the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration ...

The B61 bomb’s reported yield will be adjustable to between 0.3 and 50 kilotons. A kiloton is the equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT. Although not possessing the long-distance standoff capacity of either ...

Described as the most expensive nuclear bomb project ever, the B61-12 combines enhanced precision with a lower yield, making it the most versatile and usable nuclear weapon in America’s arsenal.

For more than two decades, Iran’s relationship with the West has largely been defined by developments in the country’s nuclear programme and efforts to stop it from getting a bomb. Tehran has ...

Gertz quotes an additional snippet from NNSA which states that “The B61 family of bombs has over 50 years of service, making it the oldest and most versatile weapon in the enduring U.S. nuclear ...

But three nuclear-weapon states never accepted the NPT, and North Korea officially withdrew from the treaty in 2003. Iran, while a party to the treaty, could be months away from building a nuclear ...

Learn about the Iran Nuclear Deal of 2015, including its implementation, its cancellation, and subsequent actions by Iran as well as the U.S. and the European Union.

that production of the most recent American tactical nuclear weapon, the B61-12, has been completed. The Last Production Unit (LPU) of the B61-12 Life Extension Program (LEP) was completed on Dec ...

Demonstrators hold Iranian flags and a huge inflated figure representing Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei holding a nuclear bomb as they protest against the Iranian regime, on Feb. 16 ...