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The Starfish Prime test in 1962 showed how dangerous it would be to detonate a nuclear weapon in space.
Listening for underground nuclear explosions amid the constant rumble of earthquakes is like looking for a needle that may not exist in a haystack the size of a planet.
The United States and Russia, the two biggest nuclear powers, have no imminent plans for talks on a nuclear deal. That should change, writes a former US diplomat.
The ‘Washington Declaration’ unveiled during the state visit by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol gives Seoul a greater role in coordinating a nuclear response strategy.
Putin’s announcement to Russia will no longer participate in the New START pauses the last remaining nuclear weapons agreement between the U.S. and Russia.
Should the capsule not be found immediately, we can’t just write it off as lost. A long term system of monitoring is needed to protect humans and the environment.
The cinematic legacies of Operation Crossroads, the first peacetime nuclear tests, fundamentally shaped how we view the mushroom cloud.
The quasicrystals were ‘accidentally’ synthesised during the first test of a nuclear bomb in July 1945.
It’s not only nuclear bomb tests that disrupt the atmosphere, there are a number of natural events that can do the same. But how long does any damage last?
Seventy-five years after the first nuclear detonation and nearly 30 years since testing was banned, the US is considering resuming live nuclear testing.
Two ABC television premieres – both about the mid-century British nuclear testing at Maralinga in regional South Australia – approach tricky territory in very different ways.
Finding could be useful for attempts to manipulate the weather using technology.
The findings will help determine the age of whale sharks, protecting the endangered animals into the future.
Russia appears to have developed a revolutionary mini-reactor able to power a missile.
The British nuclear weapon tests on Kiritimati (or Christmas) Island had profound and lasting cultural consequences for both atomic veterans and local islanders.
North Korea is a major military threat to the US and its Asian allies, but exactly how powerful are its nuclear weapons? An earth scientist explains why it’s hard to answer this question.
If recent history repeats itself, the proposed repository for extremely dangerous nuclear waste will stay dead.
Earthquakes can shape political decisions so understanding them is crucial.
Nuclear bomb tests potentially mark the start of a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene.
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