The US carried out the Starfish Prime test by detonating a 1.4-megaton thermonuclear bomb about 400 kilometres above Earth.
The Outer Space Treaty bans nuclear weapons in orbit—but we currently have no way to verify that satellites aren't carrying ...
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This is what a nuclear bomb explosion feels like
Ahead of the International Day against Nuclear Tests on August 29 2018, we met up with British atomic veterans who were ...
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This Is How Nuclear Weapon Detection Could Work in Space
NASA visualization showing a cross-section of Earth's Van Allen radiation belts. (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific ...
A constellation of cubesats fitted with special detectors could sniff out nuclear weapons hidden on satellites launched by ...
There is a long-standing international treaty in place but we can't be the only ones side-eyeing world's current crop of ...
Although the 1967 Outer Space Treaty bans nuclear weapons in space, there’s currently no way to verify that satellites aren’t ...
Space-based nuclear weapons are a serious matter, and one that deserves the very highest level of national attention.
On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...
When Iran’s covert nuclear program came to international attention over two decades ago, Tehran insisted that its intentions were peaceful and that it had no plans to develop weapons. The country’s ...
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