During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a ...

The latest scientific research on nuclear bomb survival distances offers crucial insights into the safest areas to take shelter during such an event, and the various factors that influence survival ...

The Castle Bravo nuclear test produced an explosive yield of 15 megatons and was 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Shortly before the 80 th anniversary of nuclear attack on Hiroshima early this month, several dozen elementary school students met with atomic bomb survivor and farmer Toshiyuki ...

President Donald Trump's comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the bomb, but come as Washington's ...

“A HOUSE of Dynamite”, Kathryn Bigelow’s film about a nuclear strike on America, explores the terror and uncertainty of a nuclear crisis. An intercontinental ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Those are the ...

A pair of lawmakers exhorted the Energy Department's top official to consider reining in a major nuclear arsenal modernization program amid long-running concerns over its cost and schedule performance ...

Was President Trump’s recent directive to resume U.S. nuclear testing — after a hiatus of 33 years — an actual policy decision? Or was it a political stunt to project toughness? His surprise ...

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...

On the evening of August 4, 2020, a massive explosion rocked the Port of Beirut in Lebanon. The explosion happened as hundreds of cameras were already pointed at a burning warehouse, in which more ...