These kinds of drills emerged in the 1970s as a way to train for the unthinkable. The U.S. was experiencing a rash of nuclear ...

Scientists have been building nuclear weapons for more than 80 years, but crafting this technology remains a challenge.

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In the early 1960s, the Institute grappled with going beyond “Duck and Cover.” The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 helped bring World War II to a close. But it also launched a nuclear ...

War has never been good for anyone. It brings massive destruction, affecting several countries in countless ways. World War I ...

new video loaded: Video Shows Explosion at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Ukraine said that a Russian drone had hit a shelter constructed to prevent radiation leaks at the site’s Reactor No. 4.

Could you see a nuclear explosion on the moon with the naked eye? That was the question posed by the United States military ...

According to its statement, IAEA was alerted to the explosion coming from the New Safe Confinement, which protects the remains of reactor four of the former Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

An alleged Russian drone has hit the shield containing the contaminated materials at the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant ...

To do this, researchers use supercomputers to simulate the explosion of America's nuclear weapons - taking the process all the way from 'button to boom.' Next, highly classified experiments ...

An atomic bomb is designed so that triggering a smaller, conventional explosion within the bomb starts a chain reaction. A thermonuclear weapon expands upon that "primary" bomb to start a nuclear ...