A chilling map shows the catastrophic impact a nuclear bomb would have if detonated in New York City, and the devastation would be colossal ...

When the nuclear bomb known as “Little Boy” detonated 1,500 feet above Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m., Aug. 9, 1945, it exploded with the force of 15,000 tons of TNT. The bomb killed an estimated ...

The TV series ‘Oppenheimer’ has reignited interest in the history of the 20th century, particularly in the atomic bomb and nuclear explosions. With the help of technology, we can now explore ...

Decades long nuclear activity readings off Tybee Island, Georgia's coast, have caused residents and the US government to ...

In Physics of Fluids, researchers simulate an atomic bomb explosion from a typical intercontinental ballistic missile and the resulting blast wave to see how it would affect people sheltering indoors.

However, the maps visualizing explosions of the most powerful nuclear weapons that remain in the U.S. stockpile show that they would be considerably more destructive than the new model.

This photo captures the explosion of the second U.S. atomic bomb test detonated in the central Pacific Ocean at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, on July 25, 1946.

Representing the first atomic-bomb test with today’s CGI technology? No problem. But the director of “Oppenheimer” was Christopher Nolan, known for wanting as much captured “in camera ...

Scaling these findings up to a 2.5-mile-wide (4 kilometer) asteroid, with a 1 megaton nuclear bomb exploding about 1.25 miles (2 km) from its surface, the researchers suggested the resulting push ...

Christopher Nolan is not in possession of a nuclear bomb. However, the filmmaker caught peoples’ attention this past week when he revealed that his upcoming film Oppenheimer, a biopic of the man ...

The underwater Baker nuclear explosion on July 25, 1946, created a huge mushroom-shaped cloud that spread radiation far and wide. Image taken from a tower on Bikini Island.