Locked inside glassy fallout particles, the strange alloy could only form in a nuclear blast.

The printing press, the lightbulb, the internal combustion engine and the computer moved the world into a mostly better ...

It was a rare Earth metal. Often cited among the most destructive forces in history, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945 also gave rise to a rare metal never seen on Earth, per a ...

About 141 pounds of highly enriched uranium-235 was used to create "Little Boy," the first nuclear-fission bomb used in ...

Researchers found the metal alloy hidden inside tiny grains of fallout left behind by the 1945 blast.

The National Nuclear Security Administration announced this week that the first B61-13 bombs had completed “diamond stamping,” the stringent quality control process for US nuclear weapons. Just over a ...