More than twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the threat of nuclear annihilation remains a grave concern. Today, however, the focus is not an identifiable nuclear superpower as foe, but ...

The United States is on a mission to modernize its aging nuclear weapons stockpile. And physicists have feelings about it — and the future of nuclear weapons more broadly. To work on nuclear weapons, ...

A 2nd Maintenance Squadron weapons load team is evaluated during an Air Combat Command Nuclear Surety Inspection at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. Credit: U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman ...

“Countdown to Zero,” Lucy Walker’s documentary about the evolution of the atomic bomb, is smart, swift and scary as hell. At its center, frequently repeated throughout the film and serving as its ...

Folks-on-the-street interviews at the outset of the documentary "Countdown to Zero" kind of sum up the attitude of many people about nuclear weapons nowadays. Even amid the war on terror, people admit ...

As nuclear negotiations with Iran stall in Vienna, a year from now Washington’s crisis du jour may be the coming Persian bomb. How to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons? The nuclear deal will ...

Countdown to Zero is sure to scare anyone who watches it out of their "ignorance is bliss" attitude towards nuclear weaponry. The film, which premieres today, is directed by Lucy Walker and produced ...

As the US-Indian civilian nuclear cooperation agreement is finally signed, the chairman of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd has spoken about what India expects to gain from the deal in terms of ...

When Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear countdown thriller “A House of Dynamite” premiered at the Venice Film Festival in early September, it was greeted with a chorus of praise. Just about every critic there ...

WASHINGTON, July 30, 2010 - U.S President Obama and President Medvedev of Russia signed the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) this April, a major step in the further reduction of nuclear ...

Just as the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved the Doomsday Clock closer than it has ever been to our species extinction point reports show that the U.S. warfare state is moving its latest ...