There has not been a major (or minor) nuclear explosion since the 1960s. This is almost entirely because the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was opened for signature on July 1 ...

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

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

The Trinity test may have went down in 1945, but scientists are still finding new discoveries at the blast site. The post ...

Nuclear war is one of the world’s greatest existential threats, so why isn’t there more psychological research on it?

A revisit to the historic Trinity nuclear test reveals how the world's first atomic explosion in 1945 created a rare ...

Whilst calculating the precise likelihood of nuclear war remains complicated and unpredictable, rising global tensions have heightened that danger. Although numerous countries are working together to ...

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

GENEVA — A U.S. official focusing on arms control on Monday provided what he called new, declassified details of a Chinese underground nuclear test nearly six years ago and urged countries to press ...

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 ...

The Trinity test near Alamogordo, New Mexico, generated the glassy substance known as trinitite when sand and surrounding ...