The B-52 Stratofortress began its life as one of the most dangerous bombers ever built — not for its enemies, but for the ...

It's been 37 years since the disastrous and deadly explosion at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, then a part of the Soviet Union, caused widespread horror and panic as a massive plume of ...

Growing up in the 1960s and '70s, there was an invisible tension that permeated the world around me. We rarely named it, and when we did we called it the Cold War, brinksmanship or even, if we were ...

Japan’s three historic nuclear events — the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the closing days of World War II and the 2011 nuclear plant meltdowns in Fukushima — form a key backdrop for ...

While the United States remains preoccupied with the war in Iraq, nuclear nightmares are fast becoming more realistic. The potential risks are many, including a Middle East with multiple nuclear ...

What You Need to Know: Russia’s modification of its nuclear doctrine to potentially include conventional attacks on Russian soil as justification for a nuclear response has raised global concerns.

What goes up must come down - sometimes catastrophically. Space debris threatens to cage humanity on Earth while a Soviet nuclear satellite once plummeted toward North America. The dangerous sky above ...

Key Points – Following the successful US air assault on Iran’s key nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, the immediate military objective may be complete, but a complex diplomatic and ...

Russia promptly accused Ukraine of planning the Chernobyl attack as a “false flag” operation. A Russian drone is reported to have struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s concrete “sarcophagus” in ...

Japan’s three historic nuclear events — the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the closing days of World War II and the 2011 nuclear plant meltdowns in Fukushima — form a key backdrop for ...

It isn’t often that a single Senate subcommittee hearing puts on the table a half-dozen nightmarish scenarios that hardly anyone in Washington is worrying about. Or, when it does, that hardly anyone ...

NEW YORK/HOUSTON (Reuters) - Workers struggling to prevent more radiation from escaping Japan's crippled nuclear plant face a hellish scenario -- with every attempt to get it under control seemingly ...