A team of researchers has announced the discovery of millions of unusual debris buried in the sandy beaches near Hiroshima, ...

The aircraft flew toward Novaya Zemlya, a Russian archipelago located within the Arctic Circle. The Tu-95V carried an RDS-220 ...

The front page of the Parkersburg News from Aug. 15, 1945. (Archive Image) Eighty years ago last week our country did something that had never been done before or since. They exploded an “atom bomb” ...

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

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.

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

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...

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

Cameron’s upcoming film, Ghosts of Hiroshima, will focus on the aftermath of the atomic bombs in Japan - Universal History Archive/Getty “This might be the most challenging film I ever make.” So says ...