Thermobaric explosions are created by fuel-air explosive devices. This effect was discovered in 1785 when an Italian bakery suffered the first known dust explosion. Modern fuel-air weapons duplicate ...

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

The San Francisco-based company is known for staging large-scale fireworks displays across California and the U.S.

People have a chance to provide public feedback on SpaceX's plans to expand operations of its massive Starship rocket to ...

Evacuations remain place near Esparto, Yolo County, as investigators learn more at warehouse belonging to San Francisco-based pyrotechnics outfit.

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 ...

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...

The explosion sent a fireball and thick black smoke into the air ... normally when the vessel containing it is ruptured in some way. "The effect is as if a bomb has gone off," Aquilino told reporters.

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