The nuclear taboo doesn’t seem to be as powerful for machines [as] for humans,” said Payne, according to specialty magazine ...

As the Department of Defense pushes for greater AI integration, researchers said the top models chose the nuclear option in nearly all war simulations.

A recent study conducted by a King’s College London professor, Kenneth Payne, found that ...

A disturbing new study has revealed that advanced artificial intelligence systems are more prone than humans to deploy nuclear weapons when international tensions escalate.

Physicists working with molybdenum-84, a nucleus containing exactly 42 protons and 42 neutrons, have found that this seemingly balanced atom defies one of nuclear physics’ longest-standing ...

The world has seen the devastation caused by the two atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan in the Second World War, but the havoc would be multifold if a modern-day nuclear weapon were used in a ...

When humans debate nuclear war, the conversation is shaped by history, trauma and the weight of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

A pivotal scene in the explosive hit biopic and Best Picture winner, "Oppenheimer," involves America's top scientists discussing whether or not to develop an even more potent nuclear weapon — the ...

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has told World Atomic Week in Moscow that he sees peaceful nuclear technologies "as the basis for international cooperation and bringing states closer together".