As Russia threatens atomic attacks on Ukraine and its Western allies, and prototypes a nuclear-armed spacecraft, space powers across Europe are racing to defend against nuclear strikes in orbit.
On July 8, 1962, the United States detonated a 1.4-megaton nuclear weapon 400 kilometers above the Pacific Ocean. The Starfish Prime test created an artificial aurora visible from Hawaii, nearly 900 ...
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will announce the 2026 Doomsday Clock setting on January 27, with nuclear weapons ...
This year’s contributors to the Bulletin’s “Voices of Tomorrow” section, which features essays and opinion pieces by rising experts, focused heavily on the threats posed by nuclear weapons. We also ...
Scientists from around the world gathered in Hiroshima in November with the aim of charting a path toward a world free of ...
China's Long March 2F rocket, carrying three astronauts for the Shenzhou 20 manned space mission, heads for a space station, at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwestern China, ...
Section 1. Purpose. Superiority in space is a measure of national vision and willpower, and the technologies Americans develop to achieve it contribute substantially to the Nation’s strength, security ...
The U.S. military will launch an unarmed nuclear missile across the Pacific Ocean overnight Nov. 4, in a pre-planned firing that marks the Pentagon's first weapons test since President Donald Trump ...
WASHINGTON — As Russia held its Victory Day parade this year, hackers backing the Kremlin hijacked an orbiting satellite that provides television service to Ukraine. Instead of normal programing, ...