When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New ...

Brig. Gen. Leslie Groves: After arriving at the Alamogordo base camp on July 15, a brief review of the situation with Oppenheimer revealed that we might be in trouble. The bomb had been assembled and ...

It’s a peaceful time of day at 5:29 a.m. Quiet. In that predawn moment 80 years ago, Allen Sánchez said, his grandfather was milking cows in Tomé. A light appeared as the first test of a nuclear ...

It is 80 years since the first nuclear weapon test – codenamed Trinity – detonated above the desert in New Mexico. Today the ...

Global tensions are arguably higher than they have been in decades, with the risk of nuclear war a concern due to ongoing ...

The risk of nuclear war is arguably higher than it's been since the 1980s, due to ongoing conflicts and tensions. So what would happen if a nuclear bomb was dropped on New York City?

The seismic signature of a fireball meteoroid event can be used to tell whether the fireball fragmented or remained intact as ...

THE Piper Alpha blaze remains to this day the world’s deadliest offshore disaster. The North Sea oil platform was engulfed by a fireball 120 miles off the coast of Aberdeen 37 years ago. The ...

When two fluids don't mix well, they sometimes form strange patterns called "viscous fingering," or Saffman-Taylor ...