Japan's long wait of 15 years for a BSL-4 lab to study deadly viruses got longer after public opposition to the setup at ...

Moments in human history are etched into the Earth. Now researchers are piecing together evidence of our impact on the planet ...

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

I, Donald John Trump, will drop an atomic bomb on you, Canada, unless you reduce the price of automatic transmissions for use in our great American automobiles immediately.

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

When atomic bombs struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the blinding light and heat from the explosions left only shadows of ...

Many hope it will answer a question that has long divided Americans and the country’s understanding of its history: Who exactly was J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb?

EVER since the invention of the atomic bomb, we’ve lived with the terrifying spectre of one being dropped on Britain. And since the invasion of Ukraine Putin has repeatedly threatened to ...

Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer.

More than 25,000 people died during the Allied firebombing of the city of Dresden, Germany, from February 13 to 15, ...

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