Interactive concept simulation demonstrates the nuclear fusion of deuterium and tritium inside a tokamak reactor.

This informative site discusses various types of nuclear bombs including the atomic bomb,thermonuclear weapons and dirty bombs.

This is the website for the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A & M University. It focuses on the Nuclear Engineering program, and current news about the field.

This interactive explorer allows students to click on a hot spot on the image and learn more about how nuclear reactors work.

A collection of documents showing the history of nuclear power in China.

A collection of primary source documents that explore North Korea's nuclear history.

A collection of digital documents analyzing the nuclear history of India.

New Talk provides an online forum where a panel of non partisan experts in their field discuss relevant domestic issues of today. This discussion focuses on nuclear power, climate change, and energy independence. Readers can comment, but...

This is the website of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at University of Michigan. There a links to academics, research, degree programs, etc.

A visual representation and explanation of what happens during nuclear fission.

Readings and news articles provide information on the debate over nuclear energy. In particular, the questions being raised due to the crisis in Japan after the earthquake and tsunami in March, 2011.

This resource includes three student readings that provide information about U.S. policy on nuclear weapons, the successes and failures of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and the motivations that lead nations to seek nuclear bombs....

Report on Iran's commitment to a nuclear arms control treaty insisting that they be allowed to pursue a nuclear program for peaceful purposes. The US and allies believe Iran is developing atomic weapons. Of particular interest is the...

The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board is an independent agency of the government. This site is their homepage.

This article has information about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Additional information about the measures that have been taken about atomic warfare and testing since the bombings included.

This resource provides case studies, discussion questions, and a group activity about the on-going crisis between the United States and North Korea. Students will learn about all of the treaties and compromises made over the past few...

A discussion about how Vladimir Putin is pressuring Iran to accept the UN security council's nuclear package. States that Russia and China are opposed to sanctions but they will go along with the Security Council if that is what they...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial students will explain the law of conservation of mass, the law of definite proportions, and the law of multiple proportions. They will also...

A number of electrical, nuclear, solar, and wind science projects and energy activities are described on this page, with links to each activity.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the structure and function of the nucleus. Students will learn about the structures associated with the nucleus like the nuclear envelop, the nucleolus,...

Contains all the text and images of the original document. Also includes a summary of the history behind the signing of this treaty.

Physicist Felix Bloch developed a non-destructive technique for precisely observing and measuring the magnetic properties of nuclear particles. He called his technique "nuclear induction," but nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) soon became...

Looks at the nuclear arms race in the 1950s as the United States and the USSR both stockpiled nuclear weapons. Includes 1951 propaganda video showing schoolchildren how to 'Duck and Cover' in the event of a nuclear attack. [9:15]

Given diagrams, illustrations, symbols, or descriptions, student will distinguish between nuclear fusion and nuclear fission.