A nuclear war could trigger catastrophic food shortages, leading to the starvation of 6.7 billion people. However, certain ...

Maxar, based in Westminster, has a constellation of satellites orbiting and taking photos of the earth. WESTMINSTER, Colo. — ...

The website explains it as: "Maximum size of the nuclear fireball; relevance to damage on the ground depends on the height of ...

The U.N.'s atomic watchdog and other experts say radiological contamination is likely inside a key uranium enrichment site at ...

Exposure to radiation poisoning from a nuclear attack would put an estimated 300 million Americans at risk within four days of detonation, according to a recent Scientific American report.

Iran attempted to reinforce the facility even two days before the attack; dump trucks and earth movers spotted near Fordow ...

See here for the map in a new tab. The first successful nuclear detonation in history was the Trinity test, carried out by the United States Army in July 1945.

Modeling of a 250 kiloton nuclear detonation over Seoul, South Korea. The yellow circle denotes the fireball radius, green circle the radiation radius, inner grey circle the moderate damage blast ...

Radiation from a nuclear explosion can vaporize the surface of an asteroid and change its trajectory, a new study finds. An X-ray pulse may be able to vaporize the surface of an asteroid and ...