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

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

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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 ...

There is a 2 percent chance that seven years from now, “the city destroyer” will hit Earth with the force of an 8-megaton ...

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

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

A 'city-killer' asteroid now has a 2.3 percent chance of slamming into Earth in about eight years , and a terrifying video ...

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

The timing of the attack on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, ahead of the apparent peace talks between Russia, the US and Ukraine seems bizarre in the extreme. It is surely not the action of a ...

NASA has revealed which countries could be hit if a “city killer” asteroid strikes Earth with a map of the risk corridor. Scientists have slashed the odds of a collision between ...