The US has a total of six missing nuclear warheads out of 32 known accidents - with one diver finding a bomb powerful enough to obliterate a city ...

Hydrogen bombs cause a bigger explosion, which means the shock waves, blast, heat and radiation all have larger reach than an atomic bomb, according to Edward Morse, a professor of nuclear engineering ...

In 1994, astronomers witnessed one of the most dramatic events ever recorded in space when comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 smashed ...

When a nuclear bomb detonates you have just moments to do the right thing, if you haven't been vaporized immediately ...

The US has a total of six missing nuclear warheads out of 32 known Broken Arrow accidents - with each powerful enough to obliterate a city and kill millions ...

Although President Trump has claimed Iran was weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon, much more work was needed for the country to do so ...

The question of how far is “safe” from a nuclear explosion doesn’t have a simple answer. It depends on the size of the bomb, whether it explodes in the air or on the ground, and where you are when it ...

Key Points and Summary - The U.S. military has suffered dozens of “Broken Arrow” nuclear weapons accidents—events involving lost weapons, accidental releases, or other serious mishaps. -Most were ...

A massive explosion occurred at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake last Friday, December 12, not from a golf shot, but from the controlled detonation of World War II ordnance. “We’ve been ...

The US military has dropped 5,000-pound bunker buster bombs on underground Iranian missile sites near the Strait of Hormuz. This munition, which was previously used to target Iran’s nuclear site ...

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...