YR4 was first reported to the Minor Planet Center – the international clearing house for small body positional measurements – ...

The total area burned in the recent Los Angeles fires is comparable to that of the primary destruction zone of a strategic ...

When atomic bombs struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the intense light and heat from the explosions left only shadows of ...

The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

When atomic bombs struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the blinding light and heat from the explosions left only shadows of ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

(Kyodo) MAEBASHI (Kyodo) -- A 95-year-old atomic bomb survivor who lost five family members in the 1945 Nagasaki blast is ... blew with the sound of a loud explosion. "I didn't know what had ...

Immediately after the Nagasaki bombing, at the fortress headquarters 3.5km [2.2 miles] from the hypocenter, an air defense guard was hit by a flash of the explosion as he climbed down the ladder ...

According to the BBC, the asteroid's size means it would have the same power as a nuclear bomb if it were to hit the Earth.

No immediate changes to the Savannah River Site's role are expected with new Energy Secretary Chris Wright confirmation.

Nearly 40,000 people died instantly in Nagasaki, while hundreds of thousands ... Even though Yamawaki survived the heat and blast of the explosion, he could not escape the effects of the radiation.

The bomb was then reassembled in about 10 hours at the Qinghai site and prepared for China’s first nuclear explosion. In total ... which exploded over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, including the neutron ...