Scientists Found a New Type of Crystal Formed by the World’s First Nuclear Explosion

The 1945 Trinity nuclear test fused desert sand and bomb-tower materials into trinitite—a glassy substance unlike anything ...
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'Extreme' crystal that formed in 1945 nuclear bomb test is unlike anything scientists have seen

Samples of "trinitite" created during the world’s first nuclear bomb test in 1945 contain unique crystals never seen before.

80 years after the Trinity nuclear test, scientists identify new molecule-trapping crystal formed in the blast

Matter behaves strangely under extreme conditions, and often, remnants of these behaviors are left behind even when ...
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Daniel Hryhorczuk: Forty years after Chernobyl, war threatens a new nuclear disaster in Ukraine

Since Russia began occupying the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, there have been several near-miss nuclear safety situations.

Cornered and wounded, will Iran now go for a nuclear bomb?

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 nuclear weapons.

The story behind Pokhran: How one 'peaceful explosion' in 1974 made India a nuclear power by 1998

India's nuclear journey began with the 1974 'Peaceful Nuclear Explosion' at Pokhran, making it the sixth nation to harness ...