Buried in Cold War secrecy, Project Orion was a government-backed plan to detonate hundreds of nuclear bombs beneath a spacecraft and ride the shockwave to the stars. The blueprints were real, the ...

Nuclear explosions sound like something out of a sci-fi blockbuster, but the terrifying truth is that they aren’t confined to ...

Experts say the consequences of any nuclear strike would reach far beyond one country. A nuclear explosion would cause ...