A pretty scary map website allows you to really see what would happen if a nuclear blast was to take place near you. In ...

If Russia did unleash a payload of nuclear missiles as it threatened to do today, this is the possible effect on many of the ...

In a relentless, terrifying schedule, the United States detonated more nuclear bombs in the Pacific Proving Grounds between ...

New scientific modeling reveals the shocking distances needed to survive a nuclear bomb explosion and its devastating effects ...

There is no good place to be when a nuclear bomb goes off. Anything too close is instantly vaporized, and radiation can pose a serious health threat even at a distance. In between, there is another ...

To protect its radar operators from the impact of a nuclear blast, the MoD ensured staff at ROTOR facilities were housed in ...

The aircraft flew toward Novaya Zemlya, a Russian archipelago located within the Arctic Circle. The Tu-95V carried an RDS-220 atomic bomb, also known as the Tsar Bomba, mounted on its underside. The ...

As many as 19 people are missing and feared dead after a “devastating blast” leveled a Tennessee bomb factory Friday, according to officials. The massive explosion was reported around 7:45 a.m. local ...

VIENNA (AP) — The United States and Russia have both recently threatened to resume nuclear testing, alarming the ...

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said he expects U.S. nuclear-weapons testing sought by President Donald Trump to stop short of actual atomic bomb explosions for now. “I think the tests we’re ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...