When the Ocean Became a Test Site In July 1946, at the remote Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the United States co ...

Next month it will have been 80 years since the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by nuclear attacks. More than 200,000 people – mostly citizens – would die by the year's end ...

It was 80 years ago on July 16 when a mysterious flash of light and a massive explosion rumbled in the New Mexico desert. Only a few people knew about it at the time, but the United States just ...

Blast wave dynamics and the subsequent structural response represent a critical interdisciplinary research area that combines principles of fluid dynamics, structural engineering, and applied ...

Oct. 1 (UPI) --Chinese military researchers recently reported that multiple nuclear strikes on a single target will produce greater damage than a single blast from a larger warhead to destroy hard ...

After a series of attacks on Iran made by Israel, and a number of retaliation attacks from Iran, the U.S. intervened on June 21. The U.S. completed military strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites, ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — With New Mexico being the birthplace of the atomic bomb, it only makes sense that our state’s national labs are also responsible for monitoring other potential nuclear tests ...

FILE - The first U.S. atom bomb explodes during a test in Alamogordo, N.M., July 16, 1945. The cloud went 40,000 feet in the air, as viewed by an automatic camera six miles away from the site. (AP ...