The Tsar Bomba's explosion was unparalleled in power. With a 50 megaton capacity, this nuclear test was estimated to be 3,800 ...

In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the ...

The blinding burst of light from a nuclear detonation follows, yet it quickly fades into an unexpectedly small mushroom cloud ...

With New Mexico being the birthplace of the atomic bomb, it only makes sense that our state’s national labs are also ...

Serhii Plokhy’s The Nuclear Age is both a history of nuclear armament and a homily to its dangers. Like almost everything ...

Jul. 20—TULAROSA — Mary Riseley walked through glowing rows of luminarias looking for her mother's name at a vigil for New Mexico downwinders Wednesday, 80 years to the day after the first nuclear ...

After discussing the emergence of nuclear physics, Close goes on to talk about the Allies’ development of the nuclear bomb. A ...

The U.S. scientists who tested the first atomic bomb, July 16, 1945, took the ultimate gamble of setting the atmosphere on fire and destroying all life on Earth. Even after the renowned physicist Hans ...

The rapid development of long-distance war drones has scared Russia into installing protection nets much further away from ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Operation Desert Rock was the codename for a series of military tests in the 1950s aimed at understanding the effects of atomic radiation on ...

The history of North Korea's claimed nuclear tests. — -- Ahead of Vice President Mike Pence's trip to neighboring South Korea this weekend, tensions between the United States and North Korea ...