Federal investigators say 24,000–28,000 pounds of explosives detonated at Tennessee’s AES plant, killing16 workers in one of ...

The simmering conflict between Iran and Israel has sparked fears of a potential global war, with concerns mounting over the ...

A minute-by-minute guide on how to survive a nuclear bomb attack, and ways to be prepared for war.

The first atomic bomb was tested 80 years ago at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. However, most of us are not familiar with the Trinity Site simulation explosion weeks earlier on May 7, 1945. The ...

New scientific modeling reveals the shocking distances needed to survive a nuclear bomb explosion and its devastating effects ...

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.

FILE - The first U.S. atom bomb explodes during a test in Alamogordo, N.M., July 16, 1945. The cloud went 40,000 feet in the air, as viewed by an automatic camera six miles away from the site. (AP ...

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...

During the Cold War, the US military experimented with placing nuclear weapons on board missiles that themselves ran on ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. On ...

Mao is said to have told a Yugoslav visitor to Peking in 1957, "We have a very large territory and a big population. Atomic bombs could not kill all of us." ...

It would be the most severe and abrupt disruption to global ecological systems. Yet in many mainstream climate narratives, it’s rarely discussed. A nuclear test on May 25, 1953, at the Nevada Proving ...