Chill blast

Did American scientists help Russia acquire its atomic bomb? A new book triggers off a major post-Cold War controversy

Let's not chase the atom

Nuclear power is expensive and unsafe, nuclear weapons are barbarous. We don't need them

Ground zero within

What was the social yield of the nuclear tests conducted by India? As the sensitive electronic devices measured the output of the blasts, Down To …

Nukes iced

Russia's nuclear recklessness could haunt the Northern regions for centuries to come

Inside view

Ever wonder what a nuclear explosion looks like from the inside?

Vote for peace

The mess over neutrino mass

The neutrino dispute has broken out again, with a new study claiming evidence that the ethereal particle has mass

Explosive confession

In Focus

Any after effects?

Nukes no more

In Focus

Nuke deal

Super-heavy elements

Two experiments succeed in creating super-heavy elements, improving our understanding of the nuclear structure

Arms and the man

Target: neutrino mass

If neutrinos have mass, one of the biggest mysteries of cosmology may be solved

Fusion reactor

Fresh spectre of nuclear anarchy

Increasing incidents of smuggling weapons-grade nuclear material have explosive global ramifications

Computers decontrolled

N - bombs cooled the Earth

Atomic intransigency

Trail of danger

PELINDABA ACCORD

Nuclear capacity

The aftermath

The tests at Pokharan have shown that, given the right thrust, India can develop thermonuclear power plants