Nuclear war is much more unpredictable than asteroids, but, unlike the dinosaurs of 66 million years ago, humans can avoid causing their own extinction.

In 1983, the film "WarGames" imagined a teenager who accidentally accessed a Pentagon computer system and triggered a ...

When atmospheric chemists Paul Crutzen and John Birks added smoke into their computer models of nuclear war scenarios, they ...

The war has made it harder for Iran to build a bomb, but if negotiations don’t lead to a substantive deal, it may also make ...

Iran insists its nuclear program is peaceful, but its enrichment levels, uranium stockpile, inspection disputes, and past ...

One portion of a gargantuan plan to modernize the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal, costing $1.5 trillion over the next twenty years, has been opened for ...

Located at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA’s) Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas, the facility was ...

Overview: Pantex, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s High Explosives Center of Excellence for Manufacturing, held ...

At least eight police officers were injured in a Queens, New York, explosion Thursday after responding to calls that a knife-wielding man was threatening people inside a home. New York Police ...

The 50-year-old suspect who allegedly caused the house explosion had arrived at family members' Queens apartment with a knife Sean Neumann has more than a decade of experience working as a reporter, ...

Police in Northern Ireland on Sunday declared a security alert in the town of Dunmurry, on the outskirts of Belfast, after reports that a car bomb exploded near a police station. Homes in the vicinity ...