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

The Moon has inspired myths, guided sailors, and lit up our nights for thousands of years. But during one of the most intense ...

Secrecy continues to shroud the biggest bomb ever exploded on Australian soil, 70 years after it was detonated during the ...

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

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The 1945 Trinity nuclear test fused desert sand and bomb-tower materials into trinitite—a glassy substance unlike anything humans had created before.