"They said, 'We're from Exelon, and we had a tritium spill. It's nothing to worry about,'" said Tom Zimmer, after he bought a new house in Illinois near a facility belonging to America's biggest nuclear operator, Exelon. Yikes.

South Korean military sources claim that North Korea is working at the site of its two previous nuclear bomb tests — "obvious" proof that they are "preparing for a third nuclear test." Oh, great.

The BBC has apologized for an episode of the quiz show QI last month about the "unluckiest man in the world," Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who survived both atomic bomb attacks on Japan. The jokes didn't go over so well in Japan.

North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency issued a New Year editorial today that called for better relations with South Korea, while threatening a "nuclear holocaust" if the South tries to pull any shenanigans along the border.

Senate Republicans love President Obama's nuclear treaty with Russia now! Several stragglers are announcing their support today, and it could get up to 75 votes. What changed? Senators sat through a classified session yesterday, which was presumably scary as shit.

Last year, a car carrying two Armenian men set off a gamma alarm at the Georgia border, but they were allowed in after they blamed it on a recent surgery. Border agents were supposed to ask for a doctor's note.

Iran today announced the first domestic production of uranium yellowcake, which is then made into uranium hexafluoride for enrichment. Iran's nuke boss said they will now "go to the [Geneva] negotiations with strength and power." This should go over well.

President Obama has set aside an extra $4.1 billion for America's nuclear weapons arsenal.

Looking to buy a little stash of highly enriched uranium? Look no further than the black market in Georgia, and other former Soviet satellite states, where you can buy enough of the good stuff to make a big ass bomb.

A British electrical engineer, Mike Thomas is selling his bomb shelter that he built during Cold War hysteria, and is asking for £350,000. It can withstand a nuclear blast 80 times the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

You know how there are some things that you should just never, ever lose? Like your grandmother's ashes, or, say, the authorization codes for the president to order a nuclear strike? Well apparently someone did that a few years ago.

The Post says it's wise to seek shelter underground if NYC is nuked.

Today is the 62nd anniversary of the founding of North Korea, but it's been a tough year: Kim Jong-il's bourbon stash is shrinking, they were creeped out by Facebook, and blew it at the World Cup. There's always next year!

[Newly graduated members of India's paramilitary Central Industrial Security Force mug for the camera today in Hyderabad. The force is tasked with guarding nuclear installations and power plants. Image via AP]

Cigarette smuggling is big business in Iran. And the most popular brand is Marlboro, which an Iranian official yesterday warned is "tainted with nuclear materials" as part of a sinister plot by producer Phillip Morris, "which is led by Zionists."

In response to this weekend's joint US-South Korean naval exercises in the Sea of Japan, North Korea today said it will launch a "sacred war" and use its "nuclear deterrent" to crush the imperialists and its puppet regime.

Fresh off his first public appearance in four years, Fidel Castro tonight will take to the airwaves with a well though out theory: The US will soon unleash a "sinister fate" on the world... by nuking Iran and everyone else.

Mitt Romney needs headlines. It's been so long! And what's more eye-catching than calling a nuclear reduction treaty that the Obama administration negotiated with Russia his "worst foreign policy mistake yet"? Wow! What's the problem, Mitt Romney?

Just after the Fourth of July in 1962, the US government detonated a hydrogen bomb above the earth's atmosphere, calling it "Starfish Prime." The Honolulu Advertiser's front page read: "N-Blast Tonight May Be Dazzling: Good View Likely." Nukes are fun!

South Korea has detected levels of radiation eight times higher than normal along its border with North Korea, according to reports. North Korea last month said it conducted a nuclear fusion test—a step toward building a hydrogen bomb.