Scientists have been building nuclear weapons for more than 80 years, but crafting this technology remains a challenge.

Donald Trump said nuclear weapons were the 'greatest threat to humanity', the deadliest one America has is much stronger than ...

Project 2025 opens the door to above-ground detonations, which were banned in 1963. We can’t endanger our children again. | ...

The US has not conducted a real-world test of a nuclear bomb since 1992. After decades of declining nuclear stockpiles, the nuclear agency sees a real possibility that more countries around the ...

Energy wave created by high-altitude nuclear explosion radiates hundreds of miles in all directions and Trestle will simulate this by two 5-million-volt pulsers discharging energy into ...

But this would not just be any old nuclear explosion. It would have to be much larger than the biggest nuclear test ever — Russia’s Tsar Bomba — which, wrote Haverly, had “only a yield of ...

"The threat of an EMP was first realized during the 1962 Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test. What happened ... You'd have natural gas pipeline explosions, nuclear reactor overloads.

The “routine” test was to ensure the US’ “nuclear deterrent remains safe ... launch shows the rocket blasting off in a violent explosion of fire and smoke, then streaking through the ...

During the test, power levels began to spike as parts ... generated an explosion comparable with a nuclear bomb but releasing radiation the equivalent of 500 bombs. The explosion blew off the ...