After two planes collided, three hydrogen bombs hit a Spanish village, and one fell into the sea nearby. Two years later, ...

Nuclear weapons can produce some of the most devastating destruction of any device ever created by humankind -- so what ...

An alternative history of the worst nuclear event in British history is burdened by narrative tropes and uninspired ...

On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl power plant experienced a sudden power surge, which led to a series of explosions. The ensuing fire and release of radioactive materials resulted in ...

On the morning of January 17, 1966, an American B-52 bomber on a secret mission over Cold War-era Europe collided mid-air ...

Fourteen years after the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power is being rebranded as a climate savior, and fission is in fashion.

Places that will forever be remembered as the sites of nuclear disasters. Most people will have heard of them. But fewer are ...

When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.

On Mar. 28, 1979, the most significant nuclear power accident in U.S. history began after a pressure valve failed to close at ...