It’s been the staple of various film or TV show plots, though some might remember it more specifically as being the devious ...

In 1969, a devastating fire erupted on the USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, as it prepared for a ...

Project A119 was a Cold War-era response to Sputnik, with the goal of using a nuclear explosion in space to scare the Soviets ...

A veteran has accused Labour of breaking its promise to pay nuclear test “guinea pigs” £50,000 in compensation for their ...

In response, Ukraine has begun launching up to hundreds of drones daily at carefully selected Russian targets. Ukraine has ...

The most powerful nuclear explosion ever recorded — the Russian Tsar Bomba in 1961 — had a yield of 50 Mt, more than 3,800 times that of the bomb detonated over Hiroshima. As the Nobel Committee ...

Louis for strontium-90, a cancer-causing radioactive isotope created by nuclear explosions and easily absorbed by children. The study showed that strontium-90 levels were 50% higher in the baby ...

A Partial Test Ban Treaty agreed by President Kennedy and Soviet Prime Minister Khrushchev in 1963 banned nuclear explosions in the atmosphere, underwater and in space. Growing scientific data ...

During a Dussehra celebration on Saturday, there was a powerful explosion in an effigy of the demon king Ravan, leading many to compare the incident to a nuclear test. During a Dussehra celebration on ...

even those far from the nuclear explosions. The new UN study will examine “the physical effects and societal consequences of a nuclear war on a local, regional and planetary scale, including, inter ...

Whether from a vantage point of air, land or sea, the veterans all recall witnessing nuclear explosions with startling clarity, as if the moment was seared on to their memories. According to Doug ...