There has not been a major (or minor) nuclear explosion since the 1960s. This is almost entirely because the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was opened for signature on July 1 ...

The Soviet Union built the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created, then deliberately reduced its explosive power before ...

Texas A&M University officially opens the world’s largest academic controlled explosions lab, the Detonation Research Test Facility. Here, researchers turn raw energy into physical breakthroughs that ...