A strange scarlet rock was created during the world's first nuclear explosion in 1945, and scientists have now uncovered what ...

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

Nearly 80 years after the event, trinitite still has the power to amaze.

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

A large blast was heard near the Jerusalem-area city of Beit Shemesh this evening, at a testing ground belonging to the state ...

How a deadly miscalculation turned a Cold War experiment into a radiological disaster.

Atomic bomb explosions create extreme conditions. Italian researchers have discovered an unusual material created by them.

On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...

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 ...