Flattened cities, millions of people burnt to death, and yet more tortured by radioactive fallout. That harrowing future may seem outlandish to some, but only because no nation has detonated a nuclear ...

Nuclear devices generate massive amounts of X-rays. A new experiment suggests that might be enough to divert a killer asteroid. Reading time 3 minutes Michael Bay is a prophet. Despite being ...

An asteroid discovered late last year is continuing to stir public interest as its odds of striking planet Earth less than eight years from now continue to increase. Two weeks ago, when Ars first ...

Iran’s rulers are proving they have no intention of denuclearizing the easy way, no matter how many carrots Team Trump dangles to get them on board. On Monday, after five rounds of talks, Iran was set ...

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The Pentagon is expected to deliver plans for a “Golden Dome” to Trump this week. In the crudest sense, the Golden Dome is a missile defense system that would shoot nukes, missiles, and drones that ...

VIENNA -- Satellite images of an Iranian military facility appear to show trucks and earth-moving vehicles at the site, indicating an attempted cleanup of radioactive traces possibly left by tests of ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that his country's disputed nuclear program was like a train without brakes or a reverse gear, prompting Secretary of State Condoleezza ...

VIENNA — Iran has rapidly ramped up production of higher-grade enriched uranium over the last few months, the U.N. nuclear agency said Friday, in a confidential report that feeds concerns about ...