The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory study shows that the formation of radioactive fallout is more complex than some ...

The 1917 disaster was, at that point, the biggest explosion in history.

That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire above a ...

The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.

A revisit to the historic Trinity nuclear test reveals how the world's first atomic explosion in 1945 created a rare radioactive mineral called trinitite.

Whether it’s an act of war or terrorism, all that really matters in the moments after the blast is that there are ways to save yourself and your loved ones. Here’s what you can do to survive a nuclear ...

Historic blast yields crystal: Researchers found a previously unknown calcium–copper–silicon clathrate in debris from the 1945 Trinity nuclear test, the first of its kind from a nuclear explosion.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The 1945 Trinity nuclear test fused desert sand and bomb-tower materials into trinitite—a glassy substance unlike anything humans had created before.

Confusion on whether Iran truly needed only “two weeks to four weeks” to make a nuclear weapon, as President Donald Trump suggested on Monday, hangs over the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war on the ...

Imagine a 150-kiloton nuclear bomb exploded in the city closest to you. Do you know how the city, its surrounding region, and its inhabitants would be affected? If you can't think of much more than "a ...