Plutonium may be the most feared and fearsome substance in the entire periodic table. It's best known as the main ingredient of atomic bombs like the infamous Fat Man, dropped on Nagasaki on 9 August ...

Researchers at Rutgers University have unlocked some of the physical and chemical secrets of plutonium. In this week's issue of Nature, physicists report that the valence electrons fluctuate among ...

Plutonium - the chemical anti-hero which has killed tens of thousands and threatened the lives of millions. We consider the past and future of this potent chemical element. Show more We investigate ...

The atomic bombs dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan towards the end of World War II continues to divide opinion to this day. While one side argues that the use of these weapons hastened the ...

Between 1951 and 1992, the United States set off nearly a thousand nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site, an empty and awesome stretch of desert whose cratered surface resembles the face of the moon.