However, the risks posed by a terrorist strike are becoming increasingly diverse. The government in 2000 established the nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) terrorism countermeasures council that ...

Limitless power from nuclear fusion may be a step closer following the accidental discovery of a new process to supply the isotope lithium-6, which is vital to providing fuel for a sustainable ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

Talk of replacing the American nuclear umbrella over Europe with the small British and French nuclear armories is in the air, however vague and fanciful. By Steven Erlanger Reporting from Berlin ...

President Yoon Suk Yeol and then-Defence Minister Kim Yong-hyun are among officials who raised the prospect that Seoul would be forced to pursue nuclear weapons amid fears over Pyongyang's weapons ...

Such drills are "dangerous" and threaten to plunge the region into "the world's first nuclear war," KCNA said. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a March 6 statement: "The Republic of ...

Commissioned in 1954, the USS Nautilus was the world's first nuclear-powered submarine. It was the first ship to visit the North Pole and participated in the Cuban missile crisis blockade.