Recent satellite imagery shows a huge centre for laser nuclear fusion in the Mianyana mountains, in southwestern China. The ...

The world is in danger, mind-numbingly so, from a combination of crises: disease, hunger, mass displacement, racial and ...

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Evgeny Velikhov's many accomplishments in reducing the threat from nuclear weapons—during and after the Cold War—are ...

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A longstanding Sinophobia in the U.S. goes back to the 19th century, with the Chinese Exclusion Act, the tax on Chinese miners during the Gold Rush, and ...

Elon Musk has an easy task in cutting $2 trillion from the federal budget in the view of Scientific American opinion editor ...

DOGE’s Elon Musk should turn his $2-trillion hatchet to wasteful and perilous U.S. nuclear weapons modernization plans ...

During the Cold War, the term strategic forces referred to nuclear weapons deployed on strategic delivery systems: ...

President Trump’s blueprints to build a space-based missile defense shield could help him push for cuts in atomic weapons arsenals with Russia and other nuclear powers.

The X-shaped building in southwestern China could help China pull ahead in the race to master a futuristic clean energy ...