On Oct 16, 1964, a huge mushroom cloud rose from the Gobi Desert in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, ...

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A car explosion in the occupied city of Enerhodar on Friday morning, Oct. 4, killed Andrey Korotkiy, the “head of physical security” at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), Ukraine’s Military ...

Scientists simulated a nuclear explosion using x-ray pulses to push an asteroid-like rock away in space-like conditions.

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This argon plasma produced the X-ray burst the researchers needed to simulate a similar one from a nuclear explosion. "You have to concentrate a lot of power, about 80 trillion watts, into a very ...