A nuclear missile has been launched at your city, sirens are screaming, and you only have minutes left to survive. This video ...
Built as a backup plutonium core for a possible third atomic bomb against Japan, the object later known as the Demon Core ...
That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire above a ...
A strange scarlet rock was created during the world's first nuclear explosion in 1945, and scientists have now uncovered what ...
Blue Origin experienced an "anomaly" during a static test on Thursday night at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Blue Origin said all of its people were confirmed and that there were no ...
The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.
A revisit to the historic Trinity nuclear test reveals how the world's first atomic explosion in 1945 created a rare ...
Nearly 80 years after the event, trinitite still has the power to amaze.
Imagine a 150-kiloton nuclear bomb exploded in the city closest to you. Do you know how the city, its surrounding region, and its inhabitants would be affected? If you can't think of much more than "a ...
Shortly after dawn on Aug. 6, 1945, Capt. Robert A. Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay, wrote in his notebook that the clouds below him were dispersing and the weather looked good for the rest of the ...
In the prosecution of the Second World War, the United States of America and the then Nazi Germany pursued two vastly different scientific weapons programs.