Scientists and military leaders proceeded with the first atomic bomb test despite acknowledging the risk of a catastrophe.

American military engineers designed the GBU-57/B bomb to devastate deeply buried bunkers without radioactive fallout. It’s ...

Israel is attacking Iran’s nuclear sites, but Tehran’s secret path was blazed by the Israelis. “Remember, Iran cannot have ...

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The U.S. scientists who tested the first atomic bomb on July 16, 1945, took the ultimate gamble of setting the atmosphere on ...

The map created using a simulation tool shows the devastating impact of a hypothetical U.S. nuclear strike on Tehran, Isfahan, and Qom.

Analysis of the photos shows that as North Korea boosts its nuclear weapon production, production at the Pyongsan refinery ...

In particular, the report states that the long-term impact from a nuclear weapon being used in a war will have to be assessed in segments like – Fire Dynamics and Emissions; Plume rise, Fate and ...

The map - which is, thankfully, hypothetical, but based on expert finding from Alex Wellerstein, a nuclear historian at the Stevens Insitute of Technology - shows the impact of a 20-kiloton nuclear bo ...

From asteroids the size of football stadiums to nuclear war and man-made pandemics, it can seem as if humankind is in ...

Beneath layers of waste, landfills around the US have been reaching scorching temperatures, spewing toxic gases and geysers ...