nuclear bombs

Scientists at U.S. National Laboratories are still testing nuclear weapons among the mountains, desert, and…

Nuclear weapons can wipe out an entire city in the blink of an eye, but what about all the good they can do? That…

On Thursday, an F-16 fighter jet crashed into a warehouse near the March Air Reserve Base in southern California.…

An awful lot happened this week—some of it good, much of it bad, and a bit of it just plain weird. In the good news…

John Coster-Mullen was driving his truck to a warehouse in Oshkosh, Wisconsin when he told me that he owns uranium.…

Over the past two years, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has been digitizing old,…

By combining satellite radar with seismic data, an international team of researchers has re-assessed the effects of…

What would happen if a nuclear weapon fell in your backyard? You and everything around you would be destroyed, of…

Film, especially science fiction, has always loved to explore the future we are most afraid of. That’s why nukes…

With the Cold War a fading memory, some nuclear powers have adopted strategies allowing for limited nuclear strikes.…

Hooray. If you live south of the Equator or in any of the countries that light up green in the map above, you’re…

Here’s the short answer: we probably could not survive a nuclear winter. But the long answer, well, it depends on…

Nuclear weapons are already scary enough, but when you dig deeper and find out how powerful the weapons truly are,…

Nuclear bombs are the deadliest weapons we’ve ever created because of the destruction they’ve caused to human life…

East Asia’s secluded dictatorship says it’s got the technology to make monstrously destructive hydrogen bombs. Fat…

The nuclear bomb, that devastatingly powerful world killer of a weapon, has been around for 70 years. The first…

There have been over 2,000 nuclear explosions in real life but if we believe the movies, it seems like every other…

In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States attempted to improve the image of nuclear bombs by using them for public…

Bonhams auction house is gearing up for a big "History of Science" sale on October 22. Among the many intriguing…

Little Boy, the nuclear bomb that U.S. forces dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, leveled…