Ahead of the International Day against Nuclear Tests on August 29 2018, we met up with British atomic veterans who were ...

A strange scarlet rock was created during the world's first nuclear explosion in 1945, and scientists have now uncovered what ...

Before trinitite, the only known naturally formed quasicrystal came from meteorite fragments, likely produced during a ...

Scientists have revealed something within a trinitite crystal formed during a 1945 nuclear blast that has never been seen ...

At 5:29am on July 16, 1945, humanity lurched into the birth of a dangerous new era as the world's very first nuclear ...

Nearly 80 years after the event, trinitite still has the power to amaze.

The Trinity bomb test left behind a unique form of matter, and now, scientists have discovered a new chemical structure ...

Mushroom-shaped cloud and water column from the underwater Baker nuclear explosion (Image: Pictures from History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) With the war in Iran re-igniting fears of WW3 ...

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 ...

Nuclear war is one of the world’s greatest existential threats, so why isn’t there more psychological research on it?

The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to pinpoint the exact moment the world changes. But when the New Mexico dawn ...