In 1957, scientists detonated a nuclear bomb under the Nevada desert — and launched a steel manhole cover at unimaginable ...

In 1962, the United States detonated a nuclear weapon in space during a Cold War experiment called Starfish Prime. The blast ...

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

A massive explosion rocked southern Lebanon after an Israeli strike on what reports described as a suspected Hezbollah underground weapons complex, triggering a blast so powerful it was likened to a ...

Space-based nuclear weapons are a serious matter, and one that deserves the very highest level of national attention.

When Iran’s covert nuclear program came to international attention over two decades ago, Tehran insisted that its intentions were peaceful and that it had no plans to develop weapons. The country’s ...

Elizabeth Tynan suspects Australia still doesn't know the full truth about Operation Mosaic. (PR IMAGE PHOTO) Such was the ...

Confusion on whether Iran truly needed only “two weeks to four weeks” to make a nuclear weapon, as President Donald Trump suggested on Monday, hangs over the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war on the ...

Return to Fukushima' and 'Nuclear Is Not The Solution'—lay out the perils and ugly history of nuclear power.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gen. Stephen Whiting, the commander of U.S. Space Command, recently made waves when he publicly discussed a major threat that ...