The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

While the prospect of a nuclear bomb being dropped on New York City is decidedly slim, the simulation - created by expert ...

The U.S. hasn't tested a nuclear weapon in decades, and since the 1990s has used simulations and experiments to verify they're working properly. NPR was granted a rare look at how they do it.

a new study has been released that tracks the radioactive devastation wrought by the U.S. government’s first nuclear weapons test. The “Trinity” test, as it was secretly known, was the first ...