Recently, footage has circulated on social media that appears to document one of the most unusual nuclear tests of the Cold War: the live detonation of a tactical atomic bomb dropped from a ...

That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire above a ...

The discovery from the Trinity nuclear test site shows how extreme conditions can result in materials never before seen in nature or in the lab. The term “clathrates” denotes materials characterized ...

Matter behaves strangely under extreme conditions, and often, remnants of these behaviors are left behind even when conditions return to normal. The Trinity nuclear test in 1945 left behind such ...

On May 18, 1974, Indian scientists detonated a nuclear device beneath the Thar Desert — codenamed Smiling Buddha — and sent a message to Indira Gandhi that simply read: “The Buddha has smiled.” ...