Nukes

White Sands Missile Range, where the U.S. detonated the world's first nuclear weapon known as "the Gadget" on July 16, 1945...

On May 21, 1946, Dr. Louis Slotin suffered a fatal dose of radiation during an accident involving a nuclear bomb.

The atomic age formally began at exactly 5:30 a.m. (Mountain time) on July 16, 1945. At that moment, the Manhattan Project...

Seoul and Washington have agreed to begin talks about deploying the THAAD missile defense system in South Korea.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel proposed Friday a costly fix for “systemic problems” in the way the Air Force and Navy maintain...

The Air Force was sending its WC-135 "sniffer plane" to verify North Korea’s claim of having set off an underground H-bomb.