Nuclear

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is making a rare visit to an Air Force nuclear missile base in Wyoming, hoping to boost morale among those who operate, maintain and safeguard the nation's Minuteman 3 nuclear missiles.

Montana's U.S. senators have joined six others in asking the Defense Department to hold off on an environmental assessment on Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile silos.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is assailing the new nuclear deal with Iran, saying he believes it "bodes very, very ominously for the region and U.S. security."

Wyoming's U.S. Sens. Mike Enzi and John Barrasso are urging Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to back away from a plan to study the possible elimination of intercontinental ballistic missiles silos.

Twenty-nine months after Fukushima’s nuclear power plants exploded and started leaking millions or possibly billions of gallons of radioactive toxic waste into the Pacific Ocean, the contaminated liquid circulated (s) into all of the oceans of the world.

North Korea is urging all foreign companies and tourists in South Korea to evacuate because it says the rival Koreas are on the eve of a nuclear war.

A huge explosion occurred in the Iranian city of Isfahan at 2:40 in the afternoon local time Monday. According to FARS, the official Iranian news agency, the explosion took place in their uranium enrichment plant.