Right now, there are over 400 nuclear power plants operating in 20 countries. Could they be ticking time bombs? Possibly rendering their areas uninhabitable as a result of a nuclear explosion? What if ...

The United States on Friday accused China of carrying out a secret nuclear test in 2020 as the Trump administration calls for ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive examine blast physics, radiation effects, and survival variables in a nuclear explosion.

The Rulison test — conducted at a depth of 8,425 feet — was the deepest subterranean nuclear-bomb detonation conducted in U.S. history.

C ould nuclear bombs be harnessed to help people? As the Cold War raged on in the 1950s, scientists building nuclear weapons began to ponder whether they could be put toward posit ...

The allegations were leveled by U.S. officials late last week. Arms control experts worry that norms against nuclear testing ...

A top arms diplomat at the State Department recently laid out what might come next as Washington upends decades of federal policies on nuclear proliferation.

It remains to be seen whether the three big nuclear powers are headed into a new arms race, or whether President Trump is trying to spur negotiations on a new accord now that a last Cold War treaty ...

The U.S. faced two very different nuclear challenges across two continents Friday. For the first time since last year’s war ...

The New START agreement between the USA and Russia is dead, and there are concerns this will lead to a nuclear-testing ...

John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech’s campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged scar running along ...

Viral social media posts are warning about "exploding trees" during a major winter storm. The phenomenon, known as "frost cracks," is real but trees rarely explode completely. This is unlikely to ...