A lost nuke. On February 5, 1958, during a training exercise, an F-86 fighter plane collided with a B-47 bomber carrying a thermonuclear bomb, resulting in the weapon falling deep into the ocean.

Rumors of a Russian space nuke, along with other satellite-targeting weapons, have made geopolitical tensions extend into ...

A military plane was carrying the weapons when it exploded over a rural area, killing three people and sending the bombs ...

The B61 bomb’s reported yield will be adjustable to between 0.3 and 50 kilotons. A kiloton is the equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT. Although not possessing the long-distance standoff capacity of either ...

A thousand feet beneath the desert, the United States conducts experiments to verify that its weapons work. But some fear a ...

Iran has lost one of the tenets of its forward defence strategy with the fall of ... Reuters] Nuclear breakout time is the time required to produce enough fissile material for a bomb.

The warplane-dropped nuclear gravity bomb known as the B61 has been fully modernized with a new precision guidance system, the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration ...

One of the bombs “touched down essentially undamaged,” falling toward the ... controlled switch prevented a nuclear detonation.” The uranium-filled bomb that landed on the field weighed ...