Satellite imagery of two Kusong sites in North Pyongan province shows new construction and repairs linked to nuclear weapons activity.

Operation Wigwam was a 1955 U.S. Navy test designed to measure what a deep underwater nuclear detonation would do to ...

Our nation faces the distinct possibility of a catastrophic terrorist attack using an improvised nuclear device (IND), according to international and U.S. intelligence (Jenkins, 2008). Detonation of ...

Fifty-two years ago, India detonated a nuclear device in Rajasthan's Thar desert, codenamed 'Smiling Buddha'. This event, coinciding with Buddha Purnima, marked India's entry into the nuclear club.

On May 18, 1974, Indian scientists detonated a nuclear device beneath the Thar Desert — codenamed Smiling Buddha — and sent a ...

At 5:29am on July 16, 1945, humanity lurched into the birth of a dangerous new era as the world's very first nuclear ...

If a nuclear charge were detonated in low Earth orbit today, it is worth noting that there are not 24 satellites in space ...

Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on a controversial 1969 nuclear test in western Garfield County. The first story appeared in Sunday’s Aspen Daily News. Jay Cowan and Judy Haas — ...

What would a nuclear Iran do? Or, more particularly, what would the fanatical, murderous military cabal dominating Iran do?

The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to pinpoint the exact moment the world changes. But when the New Mexico dawn ...