Could a freshly painted house survive a nuclear explosion better than a neglected one? During the Cold War, American civil ...

Eventually, they concluded it was Gilju County, an area in North Korea's northernmost province. What Seoul's equipment was ...

Between 1946 and 1958, the United States conducted 23 nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, forcing its ...

Small earthquakes near North Korea's nuclear test site began weeks after the last blast in 2017 and grew more frequent for ...

Learn why thousands of soldiers were deliberately exposed to radiation from a nuclear bomb in the Soviet Union, and why other nations did the same.

North Korea’s interest in nuclear weapons was decades in the making—but its first earnest attempt during the 1990s was ...

2. At 0530, 16 July 1945, in a remote section of the Alamogordo Air Base, New Mexico, the first full-scale test was made of ...

North Korea’s Punggye-­ri nuclear test site is located at Mt. Mantap, in the reclusive nation’s rugged northeastern wilderness. Even though it sits on stable intraplate crust, the area has experienced ...

The experiment was focused on improving capabilities to detect a "decoupled" explosion.

In the summer of 1945, atomic bombs struck the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Within seconds, the explosions turned into expanding fireballs that completely transformed the landscape—so ...

For a few decades, the world lived with the unsettling reality that a single explosion could be powerful enough to reshape an entire landscape. Nuclear testing became a strange part of everyday life ...

Namibia is hosting the first Integrated Field Exercise in Africa, with about 250 international experts to est procedures and equipment used to investigate suspected nuclear test explosions.In a ...