Here’s how a nuclear bomb actually works. The B61 and the B83 nuclear bombs currently in the United States’ arsenal are thermonuclear, or hydrogen bombs, and quite different than the fission weapons ...

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.

How difficult is it for a country to develop a nuclear bomb? Nuclear experts weighed in. Photo from the Atomic Archive Last month, President Donald Trump ordered U.S. airstrikes on several of Iran’s ...