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

NASA planned to detonate a hydrogen bomb on the Moon in the 1950s. This was part of its competition with the Soviet Union as ...

Hydronuclear experiments, barred globally since the 1990s, may lie behind President Trump’s call last month for the United ...

In 1957, scientists detonated a nuclear bomb under the Nevada desert — and launched a steel manhole cover at unimaginable ...

Hiroshima, Japan — Koko Kondo was returning from the Vatican, where she had sat beside Pope Leo XIV and delivered the closing ...

While the significance of testing nuclear weapons dwindled over 60 years ago, the terrifying circumstances that brought that ...

Risks of a serious crisis are rising. But for disaster response, the information environment has never been worse.

We asked Professor Paul Bracken, an expert in nuclear strategy, what’s behind the posturing and what test explosions would mean for the world.

After World War II, the Communist nation worked desperately to build and test its own bomb, terrified of what might happen if it failed. Indeed, a Russian nuclear scientist who attended the Bikini ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

Vladimir Putin is quietly amassing an arsenal within Russia's military machine, designed not to win a war in Europe, but to ...

South Asia is facing a surge of violence that threatens to destabilise the region. In a matter of days, devastating bombings rocked the capitals of India and Pakistan, while Bangladesh was engulfed in ...