Eventually, they concluded it was Gilju County, an area in North Korea's northernmost province. What Seoul's equipment was ...

New tests of the U.S. nuclear weapons system ordered up by President Donald Trump will not include nuclear explosions, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday. It was the first clarity from the ...

Nuclear-weapons physicist Greg Spriggs rates eight nuclear-explosion scenes in movies such as "Oppenheimer" (2023) and Marvel's "The Avengers" (2012).

The U.S. energy department’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has conducted an underground chemical ...

Watch how the first atomic bomb test unfolded, as scientists pushed the limits of physics in a race to end the war. Behind the scenes, there were real fears that the explosion could trigger a chain ...

Learn why thousands of soldiers were deliberately exposed to radiation from a nuclear bomb in the Soviet Union, and why other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scene of destruction after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.Universal History Archive/Universal Images ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — More than 50,000 people gathered at this city’s Peace Memorial Park on Thursday to remember the victims of the world’s first atomic bombing and hear a renewed appeal for world ...

The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce issued a calendar for tourists, listing the scheduled times of the bomb detonations and the best places to view them.

The United States has now publicly acknowledged on-orbit space-control weapons while U.S. intelligence says Russia is ...

On August 6, 1945, during World War II, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The Allied forces dropped a second atomic ...