A Chinese man has admitted to illegally taking a laptop belonging to a US government-owned nuclear weapons research facility to China. A Chinese immigrant to the US has admitted to illegally taking a laptop belonging to a US government-owned nuclear weapons research facility to China. Jianyu Huang, a former scientist who had been employed at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, made the admission... 

The US Air Force inadvertently dropped an atomic bomb over North Carolina in 1961. If a simple safety switch had not prevented the explosive from detonating, millions of lives across the northeast would have been at risk, a new document has revealed. The revelation offers the first conclusive evidence after decades of speculation that the US military narrowly avoided a self-inflicted disaster. The...