Known as 'the day the sun brought darkness,' the blackout is emblematic of both the potential effects of solar activity on modern technologies and our relative unpreparedness for a major solar storm.

National security journalist and former U.S. Air Force pilot selectee Harrison Kass provides a strategic evaluation of the Israeli nuclear arsenal and its role as a "last-resort" deterrent. Amidst the ...

At the dawn of the nuclear age, scientists created the Doomsday Clock as a symbolic representation of how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, nearly eight decades later, the clock ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/how-press-reported-atomic-bomb/ The New York Times proudly touted its exclusive coverage of the atomic bomb ...

How some of the world’s most precise clocks missed a very small beat. By Mike Ives and Adeel Hassan Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected ...

On August 6, 1945, the sky above the Japanese city of Hiroshima opened. A blinding flash, then a deafening sonic boom. An entire city pulverized in seconds. Thus began the nuclear age. Today, 80 years ...

Aug. 6 marks the 80th anniversary of the United States dropping an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima – and three days later, on Nagasaki – during World War II. Today, most Americans (83%) ...

The promotion was real — for 15 cents and a Kix cereal box top, one could receive a ring containing polonium-210, the same deadly radioactive material used decades later to kill former Russian ...

A researcher stands behind a metal pipe covered with electrical cords and gauges. A researcher works on a device at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. This part of the facility provides low-energy ...

Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...