Pakistan ready to deliver nuclear weapons to Saudi Arabia?

Last Updated: Thursday, November 7, 2013, 19:59

Pakistan has reached a secret deal to provide Saudi Arabia with nuclear weapons if Iran, which the world powers suspect is working on a nuclear programme, develops a nuke bomb.

Britain backed use of atomic bomb against Japan: US documents

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 6, 2013, 18:06

Britain supported the use of atomic bombs against Japan in World War II about a month before the first one was dropped on Hiroshima by the United States, according to declassified American documents.

Hiroshima updates number of atomic bomb victims

Last Updated: Thursday, March 28, 2013, 17:29

The number of victims of the 1945 atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima has climbed up a notch to 557,478 - 15,000 more than the previously recorded figure, according to a new report.

Hiroshima updates number of A-bomb victims

Last Updated: Thursday, March 28, 2013, 15:54

The Japanese city of Hiroshima released a new report about the actual damage from the 1945 atomic bombing, updating the total number of victims to 557,478.

Russian meteor strike had force of nuclear bomb, says scientist

Last Updated: Saturday, February 16, 2013, 14:34

The meteor strike in a Russian city that left numerous people injured, had exploded in the atmosphere with the force of an atomic bomb, according to an American researcher.

`Iran moving rapidly towards making an atomic bomb`

Last Updated: Monday, September 17, 2012, 00:19

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that Tehran is moving very rapidly towards producing an atomic bomb.

`Cold War era tools help track climate change today`

Last Updated: Monday, July 16, 2012, 16:34

Tracking the impact of climate change today has been made possible by tools developed by nuclear scientists to detect radioactivity in the wake of testing of atomic bombs during the Cold War era.