Could a single mistake cause a nuclear meltdown? The SL-1 reactor explosion was a deadly incident that changed the way nuclear safety was handled forever. But what went wrong, and how did it happen?

The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

Ukraine said that a Russian drone had hit a shelter constructed to prevent radiation leaks at the site’s Reactor No. 4. The Kremlin denied the accusation.

During the 1960s, the feds asked fresh-out-of-school physicists to try to build a nuke with no prior knowledge.

It is "grimly fortuitous timing" that "Britain's Nuclear Bomb Scandal: Our Story" is being broadcast on BBC Two just as "Vladimir Putin's finger seems to be hovering close to the red button", said ...