In an unassuming warehouse south of Sydney lies the only blast-testing machine of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, providing life-saving information about the defence of bomb attacks. The blast ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...