In the wake of the blast, these eerie shadows were left etched into surfaces across the city—almost like a photo negative of ...

New Mexico Scientists say X-rays from nuclear explosion may deflect asteroids from Earth Scientists conducted several experiments at the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to ...

Scientists have found nuclear weapons could actually help deflect an incoming cosmic impact — not by blowing an asteroid up, but by showering it with X-ray radiation.

August 6 and 9 are the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 ...

Hiroshima was the first city destroyed in the world’s first nuclear attack on Aug 6, 1945, at 8:15 am. Between 60,000 and ...

A blast of X-rays from a nuclear explosion should be enough to save Earth from an incoming asteroid, according to the results of a first-of-its-kind experiment. The findings, published on ...

THE condition of a prized Russian nuclear submarine base in the Pacific remains a mystery after it was struck by the monster ...

Russia's previous nuclear-explosion simulator is no longer produced, Russian media said, and other simulators that have been kept in storage are either no longer functional or not permitted to be ...

In fact, what's the difference between atomic bombs vs. nuclear bombs, if there even is one? The answer depends on how the explosion is triggered.