Want to see something incredible? Director Christopher Nolan recreated a nuclear explosion for his movie “Oppenheimer” ...

It was the fall of 1986, some six months after the catastrophic Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explosion ... s 1985 policy promise of a more transparent government and broader dissemination ...

After the Soviet Union tested the Tsar Bomba in 1961—the highest-yield nuclear device in history ... and the bomb’s ultimate explosion over the large Novaya Zemlya island in Russia’s ...

It’s one giant explosion for mankind. At the end of the 1950s — a decade shy of Apollo 11’s successful lunar landing — the US military had the radical idea of detonating a nuclear bomb on ...

Could the seismic signal of an underground nuclear test explosion be "hidden" by the signal generated by a natural earthquake? The new analysis by Joshua Carmichael and colleagues at Los Alamos ...

A blast of X-rays from a nuclear explosion should be enough to save Earth from an incoming asteroid, according to the results of a first-of-its-kind experiment. The findings, published on ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - The idea of using a nuclear explosion to fend off an incoming asteroid has been considered in both real life and science fiction for some time now, but the idea never got much ...

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that without launching nukes into space means getting creative. One day ...

This argon plasma produced the X-ray burst the researchers needed to simulate a similar one from a nuclear explosion. "You have to concentrate a lot of power, about 80 trillion watts, into a very ...

Lines for 'Star Wars' outside the Avco theater in Hollywood; a nuclear test in Nevada. Credit: AP/Rex and denis cameron/rex/shutterstock Exactly 40 years ago Thursday ...

And just to be crystal clear, Nolan did not detonate an actual nuclear bomb for Oppenheimer, but instead an explosion that was meant to look like an atomic bomb had just gone off. In real life ...

Well, to the surprise of no one, Nolan is now boasting that he found a way to simulate a nuclear blast without using CGI, and on American soil no less. Via Total Film: “I think recreating the ...