On October 30, 1961, the USSR detonated a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb over Novaya Zemlya. The explosion remained unparalleled in power and changed the course of the nuclear race ...

We don't always get to pinpoint the exact moment the world changes. But when the New Mexico dawn was torn open at 5:29 am on 16 July 1945, it was, without a doubt, a pivotal moment in humanity's ...

Nuclear weapons have shaped global politics for decades, but their destructive power is almost impossible to comprehend. From the bomb that devastated Hiroshima in 1945 to the Soviet Union’s abandoned ...

Let's get the obvious difference out of the way first: A nuclear reactor generates electricity that can power the world around us. A nuclear weapon, well, we know plenty enough about the damage one of ...