There has not been a major (or minor) nuclear explosion since the 1960s. This is almost entirely because ...

From the “Blue Deck” built on higher land within the confines of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the reactor buildings where a calamitous accident occurred are visible 80 to 100 meters away.

The previous chapters present the results of the work carried out to address the committee’s charge, including a literature review, calculations, and analysis of information presented by many experts.

Since the ominous emergence of nuclear weapons, people have been curious about the firsthand experience of a nuclear blast, contemplating the chilling power of these doomsday devices that have become ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. On ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russian President Putin inspects an exercise to test delivering a massive retaliatory nuclear strike, via a video link from Moscow ...

A detonation of just 110 kilotons could immediately jeopardize approximately 20% of LEO satellites. Radiation clouds from such detonations could persist for years. Commercially viable hardening ...

At the outset of the Cold War and the dawn of the era of nuclear competition, the United States and the Soviet Union worked quickly to develop large stockpiles of weapons and to demonstrate the power ...

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 September 23 ...