At 5. 29am on July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the world’s first nuclear device at the Trinity test site in New ...

In 1790, the U.S. Congress designated the District of Columbia as the permanent seat of the U.S. government. In 1935, the ...

Andrew Hastie says Iran has detonated an economic nuclear bomb. Wall Street's reaction so far: a shrug.To normal people the ...

In 1989, the Komsomolets sank off the Norwegian coast. Four years later, the BBC reported on plans to seal in its torpedoes' toxic plutonium.

A constellation of cubesats fitted with special detectors could sniff out nuclear weapons hidden on satellites launched by ...

Recently, two of the powerful men on the planet where space policy is concerned had an exchange on the social media platform X about antimatter. The exchange is another example of how what was once ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— An unexpected discovery in a local garage has triggered emergency evacuations and an upcoming intentional explosion on a dead-end road in St. Petersburg. The incident began after ...

A bomb blast at a cafe in central Damascus on Thursday killed nine people and wounded 20, Syrian authorities said. The blast took place near the capital's Palace of Justice, a key government building, ...

Explosions are messy at the best of times, but when the thing exploding is an animal, or part of an animal, it rarely ends well. Believe it or not, there are some species that choose to self-destruct ...

Scientists have suggested burying a nuclear bomb inside of an asteroid to help save us from destruction. That is the recommendation of a new study that examines the options we have if an asteroid is ...