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 ...

"An epic exploration of possibilities. What If is a Webby Award-winning science web series that takes you on a journey ...

A 110-kiloton nuclear explosion at 400km altitude would immediately jeopardize approximately 20% of LEO satellites through prompt radiation effects. Larger yields would expose the same number of ...

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

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

U.S. allies around the world are warming to the idea of developing their own nuclear weapons, the result of a growing sense ...

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 ...

Philadelphia has its share of talented plaintiffs attorneys, to be sure. But does talent tell the whole story when it comes ...

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 ...

The plant was hit on Friday by a drone carrying a high-explosive warhead, according to Ukraine, 38 years after the nuclear explosion at the site. Russia’s ‘nuclear blackmail’ will spike ...

The explosion formed a big hole in the roof. The Ukrainian President said Russia "is the only country in the world that attacks such sites, occupies nuclear power plants, and wages war without any ...