Herbert York, founding chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, and a world-renowned physicist who worked on the development of the atomic bomb, has died of leukemia. He was 87. He died Tuesday at Thornton Hospital in San Diego, said university spokesman Paul Mueller ...

Eighty computers have been lost, stolen or gone "missing" at a major US nuclear weapons lab, the nonprofit watchdog group Project On Government Oversight (POGO) has said. The group posted online a copy of what they say is an internal letter outlining what appear to be worrisome losses at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the state of New Mexico. The ...

During the course of last year's presi- dential campaign, we heard much about achieving "energy independence," an imperative if we are to shed crippling geostrategic vulnerabilities, reverse staggering trade imbalances and dig out of the current economic sinkhole. Proposals incorporated further drilling and mining as well as improving economies and efficiencies. Most people recognize the limits of such incremental ...

A U.S. Supreme Court decision Monday raised hopes that as many as 2,000 plaintiffs could be compensated for health problems they blame on radiation from a Washington state nuclear site instrumental in the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. The court issued a one-line denial ...