The U.S. military accidentally dropped 14 nuclear bombs—yes, you read that right! Operation Chrome Dome was meant to keep America safe during the Cold War, but instead, it led to some of the most ...

The Norwegian rocket incident, which took place on this day in 1995, marked the only known activation of a nuclear briefcase in response to a possible attack ...

Britain looks set to be blasted by a massive snow and rain bomb, and only one major city will ... However, London may be the only major UK city to escape snow or rain on this date, maps have ...

Spain under General Franco tried to keep out of the Cold War (so-called because neither side dared start a ‘hot war’, so devastating was the power of their nuclear weapons), but American money ...

There are many details to be worked out with public concerns about past nuclear power plant accidents, nuclear waste, and even project cost overruns for such projects. The Nuclear Regulatory ...

A Utah man died in a freak horror accident after a trench he was digging collapsed on top of him at his beautiful home. Justin Seymour, 54, had been working on the channel outside of his $ ...

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Most investors dismiss uranium producers due to the negative reputation of nuclear power, which is justified to some extent. The disastrous accidents in Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1986 and Fukushima ...

A factory worker has died in a freak accident after the scarf she was wearing became tangled in machinery. Paramedics and other emergency responders raced to the factory in the town of El Campillo ...

Network Rail is trialling new technology to stop accidents at a Grantham railway bridge after a lorry got stuck underneath it last week. The low bridge carries the East Coast mainline over the A52 ...

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) said the driver of one of the trains reported seeing an inflatable doll on the tracks and continued as normal. Brian Mitchell, 72, was killed in the ...

I would have talked about how cumulatively the U.S.-funded and manufactured and supplied bombs dropped in Gaza have exceeded in tonnage and destructive capabilities the nuclear bombs dropped in ...