In 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the most powerful nuclear weapon ever built. Known as Tsar Bomba, the explosion was over ...

As the cloud cleared, Air Force bombers dropped in to gather air samples. Researchers hoped that the radioactive fallout ...

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

In 1962, the United States detonated a nuclear weapon in space during a Cold War experiment called Starfish Prime. The blast ...

Scientists have discovered an enormous stream of super-hot gas erupting from a nearby galaxy, driven by a powerful black hole ...

A Virginia man has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of planting two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the ...

Taking his talent abroad, Sumino has played at many acclaimed venues. Amongst this list is Carnegie Hall. It was here that ...

From bomb craters to spoil heaps, whaling stations to war zones, abandoned human landscapes are becoming unexpected ...

The Space Age framed nuclear propulsion as a quiet rethinking of movement, distance, and endurance beyond Earth.

On Nov. 23, 1976, the Spokane Police Department received a note, handwritten by some person or group calling themselves ...

We learn of his role during the tense early years of the Cold War. Complete invasion of Western Europe by the Soviets was at ...

During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a ...