A strange scarlet rock was created during the world's first nuclear explosion in 1945, and scientists have now uncovered what ...

Nearly 80 years after the event, trinitite still has the power to amaze.

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

How a deadly miscalculation turned a Cold War experiment into a radiological disaster.

The Trinity bomb test left behind a unique form of matter, and now, scientists have discovered a new chemical structure ...

Atomic bomb explosions create extreme conditions. Italian researchers have discovered an unusual material created by them.

On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...

Sunday, April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union.

Mushroom-shaped cloud and water column from the underwater Baker nuclear explosion (Image: Pictures from History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) With the war in Iran re-igniting fears of WW3 ...

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 ...