If the bomb detonated at or near ground level, a towering mushroom cloud would form, sucking up soil, steel, concrete, and ...

Project 2025 opens the door to above-ground detonations, which were banned in 1963. We can’t endanger our children again. | ...

Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban ...

By Nicholas Slayton Posted on Feb 10, 2025 During the height of the Cold War, the U.S. military and atomic scientists decided to fire some nuclear rockets into space. The goal wasn’t to see how ...

An AI that surpasses humans in virtually every intellectual domain “would amount to the most precarious technological ...

A nuclear bunker built in the 1950s as a result of Cold War tensions has ... government from an atomic bomb. But has been left vacant since the 1980s. The war room and bunker will be now sold ...

A nuclear bunker, constructed in the 1950s amidst Cold War anxieties, is set to go under ... regional government against a potential atomic bomb attack. However, it has remained unoccupied since ...

The U.S. government wants to select "disparate" locations where it could eventually make bomb-grade uranium again.

Cold War bomb testing was part of a massive increase in the number of nuclear weapons, which peaked at more than 60,000. After nuclear war was barely avoided during the Cuban missile crisis ...

This week countries and communities converge in New York for the 3rd Meeting of State Parties on the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), with multiple side events to address the ...

A Cold War nuclear bunker could be turned into a tourist attraction after it was bought at auction for more than double the guide price. The 1958 Royal Observer Corps monitoring post in the ...