Floods, wildfires, heatwaves and storms are becoming more frequent and more intense as a result of climate change. Emergency systems around the world are being tested not only by the scale of these ...

The earthquake measured 4.2 on the Richter scale. Its intensity and short duration immediately drew attention because it ...

On Nov. 23, 1976, the Spokane Police Department received a note, handwritten by some person or group calling themselves ...

Satellite image (c) 2020 Maxar Technologies. A fire and an explosion struck a centrifuge production plant above Iran's underground Natanz nuclear enrichment facility ...

Atest emergency alert dispatched to nearly every smartphone in the UK on Sunday, September 7 has triggered wild fears. A message will be delivered to almost every active iPhone and Android handset ...

Here’s a “Dr. Strangelove”-sounding idea: drop three consecutive nuclear missiles on the same target. The Chinese military simulated this shock and awe scenario in a miniaturized lab experiment in ...

During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a ...

A transformer fire at a nuclear plant injured a security officer and led to the automatic shutdown of one of the plant's two reactors. The fire Wednesday night at the Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant in ...

Around a half dozen vehicles from the Parks Township Volunteer Fire Department and Vandergrift EMS drilled for a potential emergency at a nuclear waste dump on Wednesday. Operated by the U.S. Army ...

A fire broke out Sunday at a Russian nuclear power plant after the country's military downed a Ukrainian drone, the facility said after the blaze was put out. The "device detonated" upon impact at the ...

In “Preventing Nuclear War,” an essay published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, in 1981, the Harvard law professor Roger Fisher imagines a President in the White House, discussing nuclear ...

Power lines supplying the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant in a Russian-occupied part of Ukraine have been cut off for over a week. That means that the plant, which is not currently generating its own power ...