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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

A drone armed with a warhead strikes the former nuclear plant at Chernobyl early ... The Details: The IAEA team stationed at the site heard an explosion and was told a drone had struck the outer ...

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 ...

An asteroid between about 130 and 300 ft. (40 and 90 meters) in diameter has been given a 2.3% chance of it hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.