The outer shell that was struck is a protective cover built in 2016 over a heavy concrete containment structure. Soon after ...

Only one (or possibly two) of the missing bombs was fully assembled at the time it was lost. The total number of confirmed ...

What happens when a comet collides with a gas giant? In July 1994, Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter in a spectacular ...

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The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

Some media reports and popular accounts on social media have claimed that Israel detonated a low-yield tactical nuclear ...

The total area burned in the recent Los Angeles fires is comparable to that of the primary destruction zone of a strategic ...

Immediately after the Nagasaki bombing, at the fortress headquarters 3.5km [2.2 miles] from the hypocenter, an air defense guard was hit by a flash of the explosion ... of the Atomic Bomb as ...

The NNSA has recently given the public a rare glimpse into one of the secret nuclear labs where America used to test its ...

The bomb was then reassembled in about 10 hours at the Qinghai site and prepared for China’s first nuclear explosion. In total, it took China only some three to five weeks to convert the UF6, cast ...

SCIENTISTS do not have much time to deflect an asteroid a size of a football pitch that is hurtling towards Earth, an expert ...