At 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, briefly became a furnace unlike any on Earth’s surface. The world’s first nuclear bomb test vaporized steel, copper, cables, ...

India’s nuclear arsenal has always been modest—large enough to deter China and Pakistan from a first strike, and not ...

Police say a bomb has exploded at the party headquarters of Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten, but no one was injured ...

Two friends thought they were setting off fireworks. Instead, what they say was more like a home-made pipe bomb exploded, ...

As Bangladesh enters the nuclear era with Rooppur, it joins a world still grappling with the legacy of atomic destruction and the urgency of clean energy. The question is no longer whether nuclear ...

Evidence that Russia is racing to perfect a nuclear-armed spacecraft to target Western satellites is sparking the U.S. and ...

After winning a Breakthrough Prize, the world’s most lucrative science award, theoretical physicist David Gross is using the ...

Two employees were injured Tuesday morning after an explosion at an Illinois chemical plant triggered a large hazmat response and prompted a temporary shelter-in-place order for nearby workers.

Police in Northern Ireland on Sunday declared a security alert in the town of Dunmurry, on the outskirts of Belfast, after reports that a car bomb exploded near a police station. Homes in the vicinity ...

LONDON (AP) — Police in Northern Ireland have condemned a car-bomb attack on a police station as an attempt to undermine the 1998 agreement that brought peace to the region. The bomb, fashioned from a ...