In 1957, scientists detonated a nuclear bomb under the Nevada desert — and launched a steel manhole cover at unimaginable ...

When a nuclear accident happens, it’s vital that scientists have accurate fallout models.

Thomas Mulligan investigates the Cold War's most audacious lunar project, detailing the classified military proposal to ...

Space-based nuclear weapons are a serious matter, and one that deserves the very highest level of national attention.

Matter behaves strangely under extreme conditions, and often, remnants of these behaviors are left behind even when conditions return to normal. The Trinity nuclear test in 1945 left behind such ...

Gen. Stephen Whiting, the commander of U.S. Space Command, recently made waves when he publicly discussed a major threat that America's newest military branch recently war-gamed — that of an adversary ...