NORTH KOREA: Mystery surrounds a massive explosion that shook North Korea late last week causing a four-kilometre-wide mushroom cloud. However, experts do not believe the blast was related to the ...

WASHINGTON, October 7. /TASS/. The Washington administration currently sees no technical reason to resume nuclear weapons testing, David Beck, a candidate for the post of the National Nuclear Security ...

More than 2,000 nuclear weapons have been tested worldwide to date. The test sites remain contaminated, and many residents are ill. Here is one example from the South Pacific."For 30 years, we were ...

With New Mexico being the birthplace of the atomic bomb, it only makes sense that our state’s national labs are also ...

A paper from several NASA scientists and other researchers explores whether an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon ...

When the countdown hit zero on September 23, 1992, the desert surface puffed up into the air, as if a giant balloon had inflated it from below. It wasn’t a balloon. Scientists had exploded a nuclear ...

Significant activity on Russia's Novaya Zemlya archipelago indicates an impending test of the nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile, known as Skyfall by NATO. The Burevestnik, a complex system ...

Since the tail end of World War II, humanity has struggled to deal with its newfound ability to harness the tremendous energy in the nucleus of the atom. Of course there have been some positive ...

Chinese military researchers reported that multiple strikes on a single target will produce greater damage than a single nuclear blast to destroy hard targets.

In the pre-dawn dark of July 16, 1945, a searing flash lit up the New Mexico desert. A shockwave followed, rippling outward across the silent plains. This was Trinity — the world’s first nuclear ...