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 ...
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 the surface ...
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 September 23 ...
Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including China ...
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 ...
On an October morning in 2023, a chemical explosion detonated in a tunnel under the Nevada desert was the launch of the next set of experiments by the National Nuclear Security Administration, with ...