To date, only the US has ever dropped nuclear bombs on a population — in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Still, the number of ...

No other human-made catastrophes can wreak more destruction than a nuclear bomb. Luckily, bomb shelters and bunkers can protect us, right? The truth is that these structures' ability to shield ...

More than 400 people have been working in shifts since the damage was caused to the giant shelter structure covering the area of Chernobyl's unit 4. International Atomic Energy Agency experts report ...

“The building of bomb shelters on a national scale would practically ... preserving life in a world made unfit for habitation by a nuclear war.” James A. Moore Jr. ’64 responded in another ...

The project aims to provide school children an immersive experience of life inside a 1940s bomb shelter as well as the history of the area. Chris Reynolds, a professor of contemporary European ...

The Noto Peninsula earthquake on Jan. 1, 2024, revealed flaws in specialized indoor shelters designed to protect evacuees from radiation leaks in nuclear power plant disasters. These radiation ...

A Russian attack drone struck the protective shelter of the destroyed 4th reactor at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, President Volodymyr Zelensky reported on Feb. 14. The strike damaged the ...

With anxieties around the risk of a nuclear conflict in the Middle East ... plans to modernise the country's extensive system of bomb shelters, due to the "global security situation", the Zurich ...