An atomic bomb unleashes immense heat, pressure, and radiation—but could anything really survive such devastation? From ...

Uranium produced in St. Louis was used for the secretive Manhattan Project. Leftover waste was dumped around the city.

Veterans of Britain's nuclear weapons tests have battled the Ministry of Defence for seven decades over allegations it ...

To clarify, this is not a thermonuclear bomb (which uses nuclear fusion). Traditional hydrogen bombs work through nuclear fusion, a process where atomic nuclei combine under intense pressure to ...

An airfield on a tiny Pacific island once used to launch the planes that dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in WWII is being brought back to life. The US military is restoring the 80-year-old ...

Dorn said. The atomic flash was spotted 430 miles away in southern Idaho, yet cocky GI's and grinning generals popped out of their foxholes within the shadow of the fearsome bomb less than ten ...

Iran has since accelerated its nuclear weapons program. Estimates now put Iran within months or even weeks of producing several bombs. A short time later, after a series of escalating threats ...

Although the West believes Iran is working to build a nuclear bomb, an Israeli strike would only set it back temporarily, experts say. President Trump told reporters this week that he is not “in ...

Birthday of Joseph Goldstein, American biochemist who received the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that human cells have low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors that ...

A nuclear war would mean that five of the eight billion on Earth ... "On top of that you have the radiation poisoning because the ozone layer will be so damaged and destroyed that you couldn't be ...

Crews are collecting these samples from the old Rocky Flats area, where triggers for nuclear bombs were once made. A new radiation scare at Rocky Flats. Elevated plutonium levels have been found.