A nuclear explosion creates dangers that no amount of armor can fully stop. Blast waves, extreme heat, and radioactive ...

(Craig Taylor/iStock/Getty Images Plus) A sprinkling of radioactive plutonium atoms hidden in the ocean floor may trace back ...

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 ...

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 ...

Return to Fukushima' and 'Nuclear Is Not The Solution'—lay out the perils and ugly history of nuclear power.

Space-based nuclear weapons are a serious matter, and one that deserves the very highest level of national attention.

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

On the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, POWER sent a freelance photographer and correspondent to the site in Ukraine to document the massive decommissioning effort still underway—and the ...

Sunday, April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union. The Chernobyl disaster is the worst nuclear ...

Into the second month of the US-Iran war, the conflict in the Gulf continues to escalate—airstrikes widening, oil markets reacting, and pressure mounting around the Strait of Hormuz. But beyond the ...

Just steps from the Persian Gulf in the Iranian coastal town of Bushehr sits the nation’s only nuclear power plant. Though a fragile ceasefire enacted on April 7 paused the bombing of Iran, the plant ...