Ukraine said that a Russian drone had hit a shelter constructed to prevent radiation leaks at the site’s Reactor No. 4. The Kremlin denied the accusation.

The destruction wrought on Japan by the atomic bomb in 1945 can't be understated. Yet, these trees somehow survived to become ...

Towards the end of the Second World War, US President Harry Truman thought to speed up Japan ’s surrender by dropping two ...

An asteroid between about 130 and 300 ft. (40 and 90 meters) in diameter has been given a 2.3% chance of it hitting Earth on ...

Only one (or possibly two) of the missing bombs was fully assembled at the time it was lost. The total number of confirmed ...

Remember that 1963 comedic caper movie, “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”? Okay, maybe not. It was director Stanley Kramer’s ...

Before the 1960s, the military would actually test nuclear explosions above ground, in deserts and at ... that scientists still ensure these bombs are safe and reliable. To do this, researchers ...

There is a 2 percent chance that seven years from now, “the city destroyer” will hit Earth with the force of an 8-megaton ...

Only two atomic bombs have ever been dropped in the history ... Yamawaki and his brother were only 2.2 kilometres away from ground zero, but they miraculously survived the scorching temperatures ...

A trove of over 1,500 photographs taken in the months following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima ... and he heard a large explosion. He fell to the ground to protect himself. When he stood again ...