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Harry Kazianis, chairman of the National Security Journal and a prominent U.S. realist security expert, commented on the absence of the phrase “North Korean denuclearization” in the Trump ...

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For decades, nuclear physicists believed that "Islands of Inversion"—regions where the normal rules of nuclear structure ...

Nuclear power is rising to meet the demand for American energy. But building new reactors or even renewing licenses of ...

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An idea about the sun’s magnetic field called the terminator model could help predict dangerous space weather more accurately ...

The US last week released its new National Security Strategy – and it wasn’t good news for Europe. The document – which sets ...

Using cutting-edge algorithms and exascale supercomputers, researchers have created the most realistic simulations yet of matter flowing into black holes. Building on decades of research, a group of c ...