It was 80 years ago on July 16 that a mysterious flash of light and a massive explosion rumbled in the New Mexico desert.

A secret detachment of military photographers documented America’s bomb tests.

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

Your tax dollars are being spent to build seven new nuclear weapons programs simultaneously. But there’s time for public ...

Its ability to produce a sustained, high-temperature blast meant soldiers didn’t have to clear these dangerous areas on foot, ...

Israel is a nuclear armed state! Some claim it has 90-400 nuclear warheads and has not signed the Treaty on the ...

When the US warplane dropped a 4,400kg atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and 43 seconds later it detonated 600 metres above the city, ...

As global threats grow, aging survivors of US atomic attacks on Japan feel growing urgency to remind the world of nuclear war ...

Andy Haverly aims to save Earth by using a 1960s project to extract geological materials from the ocean floor.

WASHINGTON – Congress is poised to revive a federal program that compensates uranium miners and people who lived downwind of ...

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