When a nuclear bomb detonates, the devastation is immediate and terrifying. But outside the area of total destruction, the ...

Using a nuclear explosion yield of 81 gigatons, scientists can sequester 30 years' worth of carbon dioxide emissions, the ...

A young Microsoft engineer has proposed a radical idea to combat climate change — detonating an 81-gigatonne nuclear bomb beneath the ocean floor to pulverise basalt and sequester carbon dioxide.

This is not actually a nuclear bomb that involves an atomic chain reaction. Instead, it is a conventional explosion, as small as a stick of dynamite, that spreads radiation. This could be pulled ...

In fact, what's the difference between atomic bombs vs. nuclear bombs, if there even is one? The answer depends on how the explosion is triggered. Technically, all atomic bombs are nuclear bombs ...

Now, Moore and his colleagues find that nuclear bombs could prevent devastating ... needed to simulate a similar one from a nuclear explosion. "You have to concentrate a lot of power, about ...

A nuclear bomb can provide an even more forceful wallop ... which emanated a torrent of x-rays at the targets—simulating a nuclear explosion in space. The team watched as the targets’ surfaces ...

Iran manufactured a record volume of uranium enriched just below the levels needed for nuclear weapons, complicating efforts ...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that abandoning uranium enrichment was "100%" against the country's ...