A nuclear explosion creates dangers that no amount of armor can fully stop. Blast waves, extreme heat, and radioactive ...

In 1957, scientists detonated a nuclear bomb under the Nevada desert — and launched a steel manhole cover at unimaginable ...

Space-based nuclear weapons are a serious matter, and one that deserves the very highest level of national attention.

Using lead as a coolant could save us from a nuclear catastrophe.

Imagine a 150-kiloton nuclear bomb exploded in the city closest to you. Do you know how the city, its surrounding region, and its inhabitants would be affected? If you can't think of much more than "a ...

Matter behaves strangely under extreme conditions, and often, remnants of these behaviors are left behind even when conditions return to normal. The Trinity nuclear test in 1945 left behind such ...

A massive explosion rocked southern Lebanon after an Israeli strike on what reports described as a suspected Hezbollah underground weapons complex, triggering a blast so powerful it was likened to a ...

It's been seven decades since Britain detonated the largest ever nuclear explosion on Australian soil, dwarfing the atomic ...

When Iran’s covert nuclear program came to international attention over two decades ago, Tehran insisted that its intentions were peaceful and that it had no plans to develop weapons. The country’s ...

The official verdict warns a nuclear incident at the STEP fusion project in Nottinghamshire could lead to “contamination of farmland” and to “many years of farming profit losses”. Models suggest there ...