In 1954, the United States detonated Castle Bravo at Bikini Atoll expecting a far smaller blast, but the weapon exploded with a 15-megaton yield and became the largest nuclear test in U.S. history.

In northwest North Korea, Mount Mantap became the center of the country’s nuclear testing program between 2006 and 2017, when six underground detonations were carried out beneath the mountain. The ...

Group Captain Richard Dixon, who has died aged 93, saw service in the Suez Canal Zone and was twice deployed to Christmas ...

From Stone Cold to Becky Lynch, these eight face turns defined eras and changed careers forever.

Ali Vaez, the Iran project director at the International Crisis Group, explains the history of miscalculations that led to ...

More than a year before his recent standoff with the Pentagon, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, published a 15,000-word manifesto describing a glorious AI future. Its title, “Machines ...

In reality, it was a mass expulsion carried out despite the Supreme Court's recognition of tribal sovereignty. Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term "genocide," defined it broadly as the destruction of ...

Americans love science and revere innovation, almost as a rule, and politicians of every stripe have spent the better part of a century promoting and protecting both. However imperfect the resulting ...

For decades, research universities have relied on federal funding, with no guarantee that it will last. Now their survival may depend on compliance with the government.

About a week ago, I wrote about some golf tips I learned when trying to shoot par in a 3-hole golf challenge alongside a top-ranked golf teacher — who served as my lifeline on every shot to help me ...