Barbara Kent and a dozen other 13-year-old girls believed nuclear fallout from the Manhattan Project's Trinity test was summertime snow.

Even eighty years after the first nuclear bomb test, the consequences still haunt people all around the world. Radioactive fallout hasn’t just vanished; instead, it continues to affect the health of ...

Sir Keir Starmer has promised to meet veterans of Britain's Cold War nuclear weapons testing programme "hopefully by the end ...

(Corrections & Clarifications: This story previously misstated how far nuclear fallout from the government's atomic tests reached. Fallout from the initial Trinity Test reached 46 of the 48 contiguous ...

The U.S. scientists who tested the first atomic bomb, July 16, 1945, took the ultimate gamble of setting the atmosphere on fire and destroying all life on Earth. Even after the renowned physicist Hans ...

The rapid development of long-distance war drones has scared Russia into installing protection nets much further away from ...

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...

Over 35 attendees came to listen to North Central Texas College History Professor Charles Adams’ lecture on the making of the atomic bomb and its usage Wednesday, the first open-to-the-public lecture ...

The Alaska Earthquake Center says its equipment picked up seismic activity after North Korea's claimed detonation of a hydrogen bomb Tuesday. But the seismic reaction is almost the same as the seismic ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- Soon after the ground shook around its nuclear testing facility, North Korea trumpeted its first hydrogen bomb test - a self-proclaimed "H-bomb of justice" that would mark a ...