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 ...

Yet the updraft soon mushroomed each explosion. Shown here is "Harlem ... above Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean. Sources: "Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", LLNL/YouTube When the blasts ...

BEAUFORT SEA — An explosion involving an oxygen canister killed two sailors and seriously injured a third on a submerged British nuclear submarine late Tuesday in the ice-topped Arctic Ocean ...

It was also located far from where any of the declared nuclear powers ... landing in the Indian Ocean. Some, including President Carter himself, believed the explosion was the result of a joint ...

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 ...

In a nuclear detonation, the thermal and shock effects are the most immediate and are unimaginable. The fission-fusion process that occurs in a thermonuclear explosion happens in a millionth of a ...

A nuclear explosion in the air, on the ground, underwater, or in space has not happened in decades. If the nation sets off an above-ground nuclear explosion — and the most powerful ever detonate ...

The Tokyo Electric Power Co. injected nitrogen into a reactor Thursday at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant to prevent an explosion ... water into the ocean that has raised concerns ...

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 ...

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.