Randy’s referring to the astrophysicist’s interview last November, in which he said: “Modern nukes don’t have the radiation problem … it’s a different kind of weapon than Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” We ...

Today, these kinds of weapons still exist in modern arsenals that include nuclear weapons 80 times more powerful compared with the bomb detonated over Hiroshima, and they have more accurate and ...

But, when it comes to nukes, there are always costs other than money. Even the detonation of one modern nuke could have vast and horrifying consequences for the environment. A 2022 study found ...

This will be B61-13, the 13th such variant of the bomb design, and like all modern nuclear weapons, it will represent a repurposing of an older nuclear warhead, rather than a wholly new construction.

Whereas some early nuclear weapons were fragile or volatile, modern nuclear weapons are carefully designed with high levels of safety, security and reliability, said Philipp C. Bleek, an associate ...

This article is part of the Opinion series At the Brink, about the threat of nuclear weapons in an unstable world. Read the opening story here. This article is part of Although they are almost ...

Tritium, a radioactive gas, is often used in modern nuclear weapons to increase the bomb's explosive yield, but this comes with a major trade off because tritium has a short half-life of just 12 ...