The US sees nuclear-armed foes in Russia, China, North Korea, and maybe - one day - Iran.

The US detonated its nuclear bombs around the Marshall Islands in the 1940s and 50s.

A nuclear-power facility opening in Belarus has the nearby Baltic city of Vilnius on edge.

Many people died and no, nature isn't thriving in the zone around Chernobyl.

Iris Riddell visits the Fukushima Power Plant, destroyed by tsunami in 2011

The Tokomak reactor hit 15 million°C at a facility in Oxfordshire.

Residents in Sapporo were shaken from their beds when it struck Hokkaido at 3:08am.

Shandelle Battersby has an uneasy time at an exhibition about nuclear warfare.

Looming sanctions would make it difficult for the Iranian economy to flourish, Mehdi said.

After a possible "accident" at a nuclear facility in Russia or Kazakhstan.

North Korea continues to build its nuclear weapons programme.

New CIA files lend weight to claims that in 1984 new PM David Lange was working on a loophole big enough for the United States to sail a non-nuclear warship through.

The United States has been warned of a potentially "devastating confrontation" over the South China Sea.

A new mega structure will cover Chernobyl power plant and prevent further radiation spewing from the reactor for at least a century.

South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill has run the gauntlet of anti-nuclear protesters.

China is developing the world's smallest nuclear reactor, which may be installed in one of the disputed South China Sea islands.

Five years after Fukushima, the then prime minister reveals the "paper-thin" margin that stood between his country and an unimaginable future.

Children living near the Fukushima nuclear meltdown site have been diagnosed with cancer at a rate of up to 50 times that of children elsewhere.

Murray McCully said today the nuclear deal between Iran and six major powers was an “important” breakthrough.

One of the tricks to being happy is not to compare your own situation with that of other people. We have known this for centuries and yet we just can't help ourselves.

Australia is considering exporting uranium to Ukraine.

Veterans of British nuclear tests in the mid-Pacific in the 1950s, including New Zealand servicemen, have taken heart from a first victory in their long fight for compensation for illnesses linked to radioactive fallout.

A sonar early warning system is being developed to stop swarms of jellyfish shutting down Britain’s nuclear power plants.

A group of men who witnessed nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll in 1973 are calling for a Government study into the effects of radiation on their health.

Serving world leaders their lunch is a serious affair. No room for "blondes" or women in dresses then, it appears.

New Zealand has been at the forefront of a 16-country push for a ban on nuclear weapons on humanitarian grounds.