Eight hundred nuclear explosions were calculated to put one Project Orion spacecraft into Earth orbit. The proposed vehicle ...

On October 30, 1961, the USSR detonated a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb over Novaya Zemlya. The explosion remained unparalleled in ...

In two separate papers published in Physical Review Letters, researchers investigated the nuclear reactions that take place inside supernovae and X-ray bursts—two of the universe's most powerful ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When an atomic bomb detonates, it produces a unique chemical environment that's nearly impossible to mimic in a lab—and amid its ...

Social media users have circulated a video reportedly broadcast by Iranian state television, providing citizens with instructions on how to act and survive in the event of a nuclear explosion, amid ...

Golden Dome, President Donald Trump’s proposed U.S. missile defense shield, is built around the idea that thousands of ...

Nuclear-weapons physicist Greg Spriggs rates eight nuclear-explosion scenes in movies such as "Oppenheimer" (2023) and Marvel's "The Avengers" (2012).

The First World War witnessed countless devastating battles, but one explosion in 1917 stood out for its sheer scale. Years before the atomic bomb changed warfare forever, Allied forces unleashed what ...

North Korea is the only country known to have conducted a nuclear explosive test in the 21st century.

The general public has long had a degree of wariness and uncertainty surrounding nuclear reactors, thanks largely to the fact that many associate nuclear energy with nuclear bombs. That's fair, thanks ...

Let's get the obvious difference out of the way first: A nuclear reactor generates electricity that can power the world around us. A nuclear weapon, well, we know plenty enough about the damage one of ...