OK, pretentious – 14-year-old, I became obsessed by the prospect of nuclear war. This adolescent preoccupation was fuelled by ...

But for larger asteroids that still make it to Earth undetected, the nuclear option could be life-saving. However, few ...

Deflecting killer asteroids with nuclear weapons has long been the stuff of science fiction. But thanks to an experiment at ...

A laboratory experiment conducted by an international team of researchers has confirmed that the X-rays emitted by a suitably ...

MOSCOW, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Russia will not test a nuclear weapon as long as the United States refrains from testing, ...

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

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico have demonstrated a new method for deflecting asteroids using ...

Kremlin TV channel has shown a simulation of a nuclear strike on London that it says would kill 850,000 people with a further ...

Moscow could step up sabotage operations in the West as an alternative to threatening to use nuclear weapons against ...

By the end of World War II, advancements in military technology rendered traditional battleship guns less decisive. In ...

Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, proposes three nuclear questions about ...

In 2018, a top South Korean official told parliament that North Korea was estimated to have already manufactured up to 60 ...