NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power ...

The most dangerous object ever was made by accident and killed its makers. If you’re familiar with the Oscar award -winning film Oppenheimer, you’ll know that the Manhattan Project was a group of ...

The so-called Demon Core was a cursed object, a 6.2 kilogram mass of plutonium intended to be installed in a nuclear weapon. Instead, slapdash experimental techniques saw it feature in several ...

"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...

This image from 1945 shows Manhattan Project physicist Harold Agnew smiling and holding the plutonium core of one of the world's most devastating weapons. Weighing 14 pounds and responsible for ...

In 1946, a P-239 plutonium core scheduled for detonation-by-nuclear-bomb was harmlessly melted down and reintegrated into the United States’ nuclear stockpile. That was the end of a 14-pound ...

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...

So, the question remains, where did the “weapons grade plutonium” come from ... there exists a secret nuclear reactor and a reprocessing facility able to produce the core ingredient for a nuclear ...