The 1917 disaster was, at that point, the biggest explosion in history.

On January 3, 1961, the small Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One (SL-1) exploded at the Idaho National Engineering ...

A revisit to the historic Trinity nuclear test reveals how the world's first atomic explosion in 1945 created a rare radioactive mineral called trinitite.

That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire above a ...

At 5:29am on July 16, 1945, humanity lurched into the birth of a dangerous new era as the world's very first nuclear ...

Ahead of the International Day against Nuclear Tests on August 29 2018, we met up with British atomic veterans who were present at test sites in Australia and the Pacific, to find out what it’s like ...

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory study shows that the formation of radioactive fallout is more complex than some ...

Blue Origin rocket erupts during practice launch off Cape Canaveral, Florida. A boater captured the apocalyptic scene from ...

Former U.S. astronaut Terry Virts tells “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” that Thursday’s explosion of a Blue Origin rocket during a test demonstrates how dangerous the fueling process can be. “It looks like ...

Confusion on whether Iran truly needed only “two weeks to four weeks” to make a nuclear weapon, as President Donald Trump suggested on Monday, hangs over the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war on the ...