The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency called for "maximum military restraint" following the strikes.

The president earlier said he'd postponed strikes on Iranian power plants after talks, which the speaker of Iran's parliament ...

Trump earlier said the US would "obliterate" Iran's power plants if the key shipping channel does not open before his 48-hour ...

Physicists are getting closer to creating a long-sought ‘nuclear clock’. This device would keep time by measuring energy ...

Atomic and molecular physics it the study of the properties, dynamics and interactions of the basic (but not fundamental) building blocks of matter. A crucial component of this is understanding the ...

Working in secrecy and in great haste, an army of men and women raced to build the world’s first atomic bomb in the midst of World War II. The code name for their clandestine military assignment: the ...

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Uranium (chemical symbol U) is a naturally occurring radioactive element. In its pure form it is a silver-coloured heavy metal, similar to lead, cadmium and tungsten. Like tungsten it is very dense, ...

Alexandra Bell is the president and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. A noted policy expert and former diplomat, she oversees the Bulletin‘s publishing programs, management of the Doomsday ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...