Nuclear weapons tests are among the most violent events humans can trigger, and that violence leaves fingerprints in the Earth, sea, air, and even in orbit. The physics of shock waves, sound, and ...
Cracks in a concrete dome housing nuclear waste has sparked fears that the site could be susceptible to rising seas. Experts are having a nuclear meltdown. Cracks in a dome over a contaminated nuclear ...
How a deadly miscalculation turned a Cold War experiment into a radiological disaster.
VIENNA (AP) — The United States and Russia have both recently threatened to resume nuclear testing, alarming the international community and jeopardizing a global norm against such tests. Experts say ...
Project Orion was one of the most extreme spacecraft ideas ever seriously designed: a giant ship that would fly by dropping ...
Imagine a 150-kiloton nuclear bomb exploded in the city closest to you. Do you know how the city, its surrounding region, and its inhabitants would be affected? If you can't think of much more than "a ...