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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.