In 1980, a dropped socket wrench triggered a chain reaction inside a Titan II missile silo—putting a 9-megaton warhead at the brink of detonation. The world came terrifyingly close to disaster.

As the video above explains, approximately 35 percent of the energy of a nuclear blast is released in the form of thermal ...

It’s been 80 years since a nuclear bomb was last used in war, but these weapons continue to haunt us due to their frightening ...

A previously classified map could ignite fear across the United States as it marks the prime targets for a nuclear strike.

NASA has raised the odds that a massive asteroid, about the size of a 10-storey building, could collide with Earth's Moon.

The story of the birth and growth of nuclear science is rebalanced in Destroyer of Worlds, which gives due prominence to the ...

At least five people have been killed and 19 injured in a huge chemical plant explosion in eastern China, according to state media reports. Six people were still missing following the explosion at ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Gladstone Fire Department confirmed one man died in an explosion Saturday morning that completely destroyed a single-family residence in Gladstone. The call was received ...

Authorities in Missouri are working to determine the identity of a person who died in a massive house explosion caught on camera. A neighborhood outside Kansas City was rocked Saturday morning ...

Baltimore police took a man into custody after a reported explosion Monday afternoon.City police told 11 News that officers took a 46-year-old man into custody after officers and fire officials ...