Sunday, April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power ...
Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.
IN the dead of night 40 years ago on April 26, 1986, nothing seemed out of the ordinary at the now abandoned Chernobyl ...
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, the world saw the nuclear age come into being ...
Watch how the first atomic bomb test unfolded, as scientists pushed the limits of physics in a race to end the war. Behind ...
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 ...
Ty Bannerman will read from and sign copies of “Nuclear Family: a memoir of the atomic west” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, as part of the Bad Mouth Reading Series at the q-Staff Theatre, 400 Broadway ...
When Iran’s covert nuclear program came to international attention over two decades ago, Tehran insisted that its intentions ...
As the effects of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August of 1945 proved to be devastating enough to convince scientists that ...
Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...