Beyond mathematics and physics, Dyson would also express great interest in space exploration — with ... on the famous Project Orion, which used nuclear bombs for propulsion.

The United States has raised a big red flag as Russia is working on a satellite that might carry nuclear space weapons. This ...

Narrator: Imagine if we detonated a nuclear bomb in space? Actually ... and created a burst of energy called an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, that expanded for over 1,000 kilometers.

Try to fathom the power of 1 million nuclear power plants. Now, imagine there is a way to pack the equivalent of that into ...

US military officials believe Russia and China are aggressively testing new offensive space capabilities, pointing to a series of satellite training missions conducted by both countries in recent ...

On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space ...

While setting off a nuclear bomb may conjure the image of mass casualty events as seen historically, their potential use in space is likely to be designed to create of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP).

High-altitude Nuclear Effects ARA will highlight its advances in high-altitude nuclear effects at the 40th Space Symposium in ...