Hydrogen bombs cause a bigger explosion, which means the shock waves, blast, heat and radiation all have larger reach than an ...
A US official says a seismic station in Kazakhstan collected evidence of an alleged China nuclear test at Lop Nur in June 2020.
"The jury remains out on whether the June 2020 event was a nuclear test or not. What is certain is that we are in a time of ...
Out of this surreal convergence of spectacle and science emerged one of the most striking and unsettling cultural icons of ...
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said he expects U.S. nuclear-weapons testing sought by President Donald Trump to stop short of actual atomic bomb explosions for now. “I think the tests we’re ...
MOSCOW, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Russia accused Ukraine on Tuesday of trying to obtain a nuclear weapon with help from Britain and ...
From Trinity’s fallout to a New Mexico school underground, “Nuclear Family” traces how the bomb reshaped one family and a ...
LOS ALAMOS — A sphere of plutonium the size of a grapefruit contains enough energy to erase an entire city from existence. That single fact explains why nuclear weapons remain humanity’s most feared ...
Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...
The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.
The Rulison test — conducted at a depth of 8,425 feet — was the deepest subterranean nuclear-bomb detonation conducted in U.S. history.