In 1952, the United States tested the first full-scale hydrogen bomb, unleashing a thermonuclear explosion so powerful it completely erased an island from the map. The blast produced a fireball miles ...

After a mid-air collision off Tybee Island in 1958, the military spent decades dredging the coast for a 7,600-pound nuke. It ...

In 1994, astronomers witnessed one of the most dramatic events ever recorded in space when comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter. Traveling at more than 216,000 km/h, the comet broke into 21 ...

The US has a total of six missing nuclear warheads out of 32 known accidents - with one diver finding a bomb powerful enough ...

A fourth talk in the Great Decisions series at the Tahlequah Public Library focused on nuclear arms, and why leaders feel the need to build them. Dr. Denis Vovchenko, a professor of history at ...

After missile hit city near sensitive site, experts say strike on nuclear reactor would pose little risk of Chernobyl-like ...

A “crude but viable” explosive device was at the centre of an attack on a police station in Northern Ireland. A delivery driver was forced at gunpoint to transport the device to Lurgan police station ...

Spanish farmer Pedro Alarcón was walking with his grandchildren when a US nuclear weapon landed in his tomato field after a B ...

A diver off the coast of British Columbia was searching for fish when he discovered a mysterious object on the Pacific Ocean floor - but the UFO-shaped find turned out to be far more alarming ...

The Johannesburg station bomb and a BBC TV programme. On July 24, 1964, a bomb made mainly from sticks of dynamite and petrol ...

In 1939, German scientists Otto Hahn (later a Nobel laureate in Chemistry) and Fritz Strassmann discovered the effect of uranium-235 nuclear fission, which paved the way for the creation of nuclear ...

As aerial firepower became increasingly destructive, humanity was forced to find ways to defend itself underground. While ...