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Kim Jong-un giving a piggyback

Technology

North Korea isn’t bluffing, the nuclear threat to the US is real

Kim Jong-un’s unusual celebrations following a missile test this year herald the nation’s confidence in its ability to threaten US cities, says Jeffrey Lewis

Comment

A missile blasts off again the background of green hills

Technology

North Korea launches ICBM with potential to reach New York

News

The JET device

Health

Brexiteers must not risk UK’s nuclear future by leaving Euratom

Comment

Costa Rican Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gomez

Technology

Nations of the world agree to ban nuclear weapons – now what?

News

A missile blasts off again the background of green hills

Technology

North Korean missiles could soon reach the US. Can we stop them?

Analysis

A man watches news of a North Korean rocket launch

Space

North Korea claims test of an intercontinental ballistic missile

News

$Energy security is possible without nuclear power or fracked gas$

Earth

Energy security is possible without nuclear power or fracked gas

Comment

SPIDER reactor

Physics

Inside the SPIDER facility, preparing for nuclear fusion tests

Regulars

submarine

Technology

Wake-up call: How turbulence could reveal secret nuclear subs

Features

Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

Life

Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

Human clones, a colony on Mars, alien contact... what world-changing breakthroughs will come in the next decade? We asked the experts – with some surprising results

Features

Technology

Chernobyl disaster: how the Soviet Union's cover story was blown

Features