On July 8, 1962, the United States detonated a 1.4-megaton nuclear weapon 400 kilometers above the Pacific Ocean. The Starfish Prime test created an artificial aurora visible from Hawaii, nearly 900 ...
Many advocated the internationalization of atomic weaponry after the war. Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle did not.
In February 2024, it was revealed that Russia is developing a space-based antisatellite capability, suspected of being a space-based nuclear weapon. The weapon, if deployed, would violate the Outer ...
Vladimir Putin is working on putting nuclear weapons in space, a military chief has said. Experts at the Institute for the ...
In a breakthrough that could potentially rewrite the prevention and treatment of cancer, scientists have discovered how ...
In fact, it was only shortly after the detonation of the first atomic bomb that the concept of nuclear engines became a serious research topic. Since then, there have been a number of NASA projects to ...
Putin said it was unclear what would happen in the future if a one-year extension was signed. Read more at straitstimes.com.