The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky for hundreds of miles. By Nicholas Slayton Published Feb 10, 2025 8:07 AM EST During ...
Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.
Nuclear weapons tests are among the most violent events humans can trigger, and that violence leaves fingerprints in the ...
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 ...
Triangles mark seismometers used to study the Oct. 5, 2024, earthquake, along with two similar events identified by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization. The 2015 event shares a nearly ...
Minutes after a magnitude 4.5 earthquake hit Iran on October 5, 2024, rumors swirled that it wasn’t natural—claims that scientists have now shown to be false. Reading time 3 minutes On October 5, 2024 ...
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BAXTERVILLE, Miss. (WDAM) - There’s no signpost marking Mississippi’s only nuclear test site. There’s no visitor center, either — just timberland, wildlife … and a radioactive legacy buried beneath ...
This, in effect, means that they can study next-gen nuclear fuels as they circulate in real time. Five different sensors are able to analyze different stats such as the salts' surface tension and ...