The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory study shows that the formation of radioactive fallout is more complex than some ...

For over 40 years, this remote corner of Kazakhstan was one of the most secret places on Earth. The Soviet Union detonated ...

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

At 5:29am on July 16, 1945, humanity entered a dangerous new era as the world's very first nuclear explosion blossomed over New Mexico. As the blast, known as the Trinity nuclear test, vaporised the ...

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 ...

Mysterious GPS disruptions across Europe, affecting vast areas for years, are now linked to a Russian military satellite ...

According to an MSU press release, Jaspreet Singh Randhawa, a Mississippi State assistant professor of physics, has received ...

The discovery from the Trinity nuclear test site shows how extreme conditions can result in materials never before seen in nature or in the lab. The term “clathrates” denotes materials characterized ...

Editor’s note: This is part of the “Nuclear winter: Why study it now?” series. In November of 1981, atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and I sat in his office at the Max Planck Institute in Mainz, ...