Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 4—J. Robert Oppenheimer's reflection on the Bhagavad Gita following the detonation of the world's first nuclear bomb at the ...

Nuclear weapons laboratories don’t often help solve serial-killer cases. But in the investigation of Efren Saldivar, data from such a lab provided the clinching evidence that led to his conviction on ...

The head of the nation's top nuclear weapons lab has resigned. Pete Nanos is credited with improving management of Los Alamos, which has been buffeted by security and management scandals. But Nanos is ...

Nuclear testing has long been depicted as mushroom clouds emerging and rising above remote desert landscapes or the ground slowly collapsing like a sinkhole as an underground detonation goes off. But ...

The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has developed new portable field devices that will allow soldiers to identify unknown ...