Oklo Inc. (OKLO) and Dominion Energy (D) are two very different companies. Yet, they share a meaningful common thread: both are tied to the expanding role of nuclear power in a world racing toward ...

A subsurface atomic test near Yucca Flats, Nev., in March 1955. (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission via AP) In what would be a major shift in a decades-old American policy against global nuclear ...

Key Points and Summary - The U.S. military has suffered dozens of “Broken Arrow” nuclear weapons accidents—events involving lost weapons, accidental releases, or other serious mishaps. -Most were ...

Brett McGurk is a CNN global affairs analyst who served in senior national security positions under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden. In the summer of 2022, I ...

With doomsday nuclear weapons the last remnant of Russia's superpower status, President Vladimir Putin is stepping up threats to use them against Western powers aiding Ukraine. (Photo by Alexander ...

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...

A quarter century ago, German political scientist Harald Müller observed that “the very basic question of whether … Germany should rethink its renunciation of nuclear weapons has a very odd ...