Portland, Ore. – The world's first bomb blast simulator aims to catapult “battle hardening” from a medieval black art into a 21st-century science. A University of California, San Diego, team thinks it ...

UC San Diego engineers will use the school’s blast simulator at Scripps Ranch Wednesday to stress test a type of wall panel that might be useful for everything from protecting troops in combat zones ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) - The University of California, San Diego showed off Wednesday what it called the world's first laboratory blast simulator by slamming a seven-ton concrete column with the same force as ...

Federal officials and agencies that work closely on the nuclear weapons arsenal agree: The threat of nuclear conflict is rising and, with it, the risk of an attack on the U.S. In a sense, U.S. nuclear ...

Vladimir Putin has not been shy about suggesting that Russia’s nuclear arsenal could come into play as his invasion of the Ukraine flounders, and with Sweden and Finland looking to join NATO.

Structural engineers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Jacobs School of Engineering will test the effects of bomb blasts in a new blast simulator laboratory under construction at UCSD.

Harvard bioengineers have figured out the mechanics behind bomb-blast brain injuries. More than 300,000 US troops have suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the current wars in Iraq and ...