The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

NUMDAB is an information resource on the status of nuclear medicine practice worldwide. The database contains data on individual nuclear medicine facilities and their manpower and equipment, as well ...

If a bomb of that size were to hit central London tomorrow, an estimated 1,050,720 Londoners would die and 2,489,210 people would be injured, according to nuclear modelling website NukeMap.

The International Nuclear Information System (INIS) hosts one of the world's largest collections of published information on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology. INIS is a unique and ...

"All of this is to help further our goal of monitoring nuclear explosions better and understanding ... PE1 will be released to a public seismic database after two years. "We want this to be ...

However, the Soviet Union did in fact manage to put nuclear explosions to good use for civilian ends. One of the first examples was using a nuke to plug an out-of-control gas well in the mid 1960s.

Imagine that a 150-kiloton nuclear bomb exploded in the city closest to you. Do you know how the city, surrounding region, and its inhabitants would be affected? If you can't think of much more ...