The 1980s witnessed mass demonstrations demanding a nuclear freeze. Today, the threat of nuclear war is beginning to enter ...

This most fundamental question was famously posited by none other than Nobel laureate physicist Enrico Fermi (1901–1954).

Scientists and military leaders proceeded with the first atomic bomb test despite acknowledging the risk of a catastrophe.

Scientists have used ultracold atoms to successfully demonstrate a novel method of particle acceleration that could unlock a ...

In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of paper. As the shockwave rolled toward him, he dropped the papers and ...

This prompted Fermi to ask what was (to him) an obvious question: “where is everybody?” In a galaxy assumed to be filled with ...

Three American scientists have been named by the White House as recipients of the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award. Héctor D. Abruña, Paul Alivisatos, and John H. Nuckolls were recognized for ...

As net zero goals revive the push for atomic power, could it light the way or lead to disaster? Three timely books explore ...

While gas power is the starter, nuclear energy is the next step in the Fermi America plan for the Amarillo HyperGrid.

He served as a science adviser, focusing on nuclear deterrence, to every U.S. president who served during his lifetime. Enrico Fermi, his mentor, once called him “the only true genius I have ...

Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist, received the 1938 Nobel Prize in physics for identifying new elements and discovering nuclear reactions by his method of nuclear irradiation and ...