Nuclear experts see Tehran as facing up to a year of hard work to master the knotty basics of building a deliverable atom ...

Unveiled at the Land Forces event, the 'bug zapper' will 'fry' any electronic device hit by pulse energy. Defence says 'Yes, ...

The devastation witnessed by the Japanese Red Cross Society and the ICRC in Hiroshima and Nagasaki some eighty years ago is proof that no humanitarian response can adequately address the catastrophic ...

Disturbing video describes the precise injuries that would be inflicted on the human body in the various blast zones of a ...

It’s a bad month for any malicious asteroids out there. On Sept. 4, an observer at the Catalina Sky Survey spotted an ...

Radiation from a nuclear explosion can vaporize the surface of an asteroid and change its trajectory, a new study finds.

This pulse of X-ray radiation, produced by a nuclear explosion, could be used to vaporize the surface of an asteroid, changing its trajectory just enough that it misses our planet, according to a ...

ANU seismologists reveal how the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption, rivaling a nuclear blast, triggered tsunamis and global ...

"Our findings confirm there was an explosion, possibly due to a gas-compressed rock, which released energy that equated to five of the largest underground nuclear explosions conducted by North Korea ...

Precise detonation of a nuclear bomb above an incoming chunk of space rock could be our best hope of avoiding a cataclysmic impact. A laboratory experiment conducted by an international team of ...

"Understanding how different asteroid materials vaporize and deflect will be critical for preparing for a planetary defense mission, should the need arise." ...

The Hunga Tonga underwater volcano was one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history, and now, two years later, new research has revealed its main trigger.