The US Navy’s NIKE laser, the world’s most powerful of its kind, is now being used to simulate nuclear conditions and test ...

A black-and-white video purportedly showing the explosion of the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl has become extremely popular ...

A bestselling author's book is being adapted to a movie about the reality of an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) strike on the ...

The suspect, Ignat Kuzin, pleaded guilty to terrorism charges and said he was paid by the Ukrainian Security Service, ...

Sometimes, the gas layer ignites suddenly in a thermonuclear explosion, causing a brief X-ray burst lasting seconds to minutes. This is what XSPECT observed first — a quick burst peaking in just a few ...

The actionable finding from that disgraceful episode is this: never dissemble, even to defend a venerable institution.

Famously, the U.S. military wanted to build a manned spacecraft powered by controlled nuclear explosions—violently propelling the spacecraft through the cold, dark recesses of space. Known as ...

The explosion in new AI capabilities is driving a related competition for more electrical power, including nuclear power. But practical and regulatory obstacles have inhibited investors.

The Tsar Bomba's explosion was unparalleled in power. With a 50 megaton capacity, this nuclear test was estimated to be 3,800 times the strength of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that without launching nukes into space means getting creative. One day ...

If the bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed 140,000 people, and this explosion was little more than a nuclear hiccough compared to the power of Sundial, then imagine the death toll it would have had.