Several countries experienced all-time highs in June as Europeans endured unprecedented heat and dangerously elevated ...

The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab was an actual radioactive toy and learning set sold in the early 1950s. The $49.50 set came with four samples of uranium-bearing ores (autunite, torbernite, ...

In August of 1939, Albert Einstein sent a letter to U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, advising him that the process of nuclear fission could potentially be used to create a powerful atomic ...

For most of the past three decades, one might almost have said the United Kingdom had a glowing record on nuclear non-proliferation: Britain was the only major nuclear power to operate a minimum ...

In 1955, one year after the United States tested a hydrogen bomb 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb used on Hiroshima, an international group of scientists warned that “H-bombs might quite ...

Mateusz “Matt” Blaszczyk is an assistant professor at the University of Georgia School of Law, where he teaches property, law ...

The Doomsday Clock is a design that warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It is a metaphor, a reminder of the perils we must ...

Eliana Johns, née Reynolds, is a senior research associate for the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, where she researches the status and trends of global nuclear ...