A nuclear explosion creates dangers that no amount of armor can fully stop. Blast waves, extreme heat, and radioactive ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

Imagine a 150-kiloton nuclear bomb exploded in the city closest to you. Do you know how the city, its surrounding region, and its inhabitants would be affected? If you can't think of much more than "a ...

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

Matter behaves strangely under extreme conditions, and often, remnants of these behaviors are left behind even when conditions return to normal. The Trinity nuclear test in 1945 left behind such ...

The Chernobyl disaster began in the early hours of April 26, 1986, when a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded during a safety test. The explosion and subsequent fire sent a plume of ...

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

Sun’ is being developed in Nottinghamshire as UK hopes to lead world in nuclear fusion power Joe Pinkstone joined The Telegraph in 2021. He is recognised for making complex scientific data accessible ...

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

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 ...

Just steps from the Persian Gulf in the Iranian coastal town of Bushehr sits the nation’s only nuclear power plant. Though a fragile ceasefire enacted on April 7 paused the bombing of Iran, the plant ...