A young Microsoft engineer has proposed a radical idea to combat climate change — detonating an 81-gigatonne nuclear bomb ...

Using a nuclear explosion yield of 81 gigatons, scientists can sequester 30 years' worth of carbon dioxide emissions, the ...

In the 1960s, Project Plowshare studied the effects of a nuclear explosion on geological materials on the ocean floor. Now, researcher Andy Haverly envisions taking it a step further as he looks ...

Description: The Tsar Bomba is the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated. It was a hydrogen bomb and was tested over Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean. The explosion was so massive that it ...

"Our findings confirm there was an explosion, possibly due to a gas-compressed rock, which released energy that equated to five of the largest underground nuclear ... the Pacific Ocean's floor.

The largest nuclear test conducted by the US was the Castle Bravo test which took place on March 1, 1954, at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The explosion yielded 15 megatonnes, with a mushroom ...

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only ... If we are lucky, it will land in the middle of the vast ocean, creating a good-size but innocuous tsunami, or in an uninhabited patch ...

The study suggests a nuclear explosion could sequester 30 years of ... detonating the world's biggest nuclear bomb under the ocean to eviscerate the carbon-absorbing rocks that make up the seabed.