Sunday, April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power ...

There has not been a major (or minor) nuclear explosion since the 1960s. This is almost entirely because the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was opened for signature on July 1 ...

In the early hours of 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded after a planned safety test went catastrophically wrong. The Chernobyl disaster was the result of a chain ...

A nuclear explosion creates immediate and long-lasting dangers, including intense heat, blast pressure, and radiation.

Nuclear explosions sound like something out of a sci-fi blockbuster, but the terrifying truth is that they aren’t confined to fiction. The sheer scale of energy released in a nuclear blast can wipe ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, the New START treaty, a strategic-arms reduction agreement between Russia and the United States to limit their nuclear arsenal, expired. That accord was the last in a series of ...

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A nuclear bomb explodes at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean in 1946, one of several U.S. test explosions. Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The idea for a new canal to move oil from the ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. With the world struggling to get oil supplies moving from the Middle East, ...

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