At 5:29am on July 16, 1945, humanity entered a dangerous new era as the world's very first nuclear explosion blossomed over New Mexico. As the blast, known as the Trinity nuclear test, vaporised the ...

Matter behaves strangely under extreme conditions, and often, remnants of these behaviors are left behind even when conditions return to normal. The Trinity nuclear test in 1945 left behind such ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gen. Stephen Whiting, the commander of U.S. Space Command, recently made waves when he publicly discussed a major threat that ...

Ahead of the International Day against Nuclear Tests on August 29 2018, we met up with British atomic veterans who were ...

The discovery from the Trinity nuclear test site shows how extreme conditions can result in materials never before seen in nature or in the lab. The term “clathrates” denotes materials characterized ...

Editor’s note: This is part of the “Nuclear winter: Why study it now?” series. Earth scientists Brian Toon and Alan Robock discuss their latest book on nuclear winter, “Earth in Flames” (Oxford ...

Return to Fukushima' and 'Nuclear Is Not The Solution'—lay out the perils and ugly history of nuclear power.

Space-based nuclear weapons are a serious matter, and one that deserves the very highest level of national attention.