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 ...

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

By using chemicals and layering clips while editing, they made a realistic atomic explosion. He's blown up a 747 , filmed fight scenes in zero gravity , and now, he's made a bomb. Well, a mini bomb.

Also called the atom bomb, or fission bomb, these devices use nuclear fission to cause a tremendous explosion. More specifically, a nuclear bomb uses a small explosion on a sphere of plutonium-239 ...

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.

The explosion yielded an energy equivalent of 10 megatons of TNT, an amount roughly 1,000 times as large as that released by the Hiroshima bomb. Sources: Nuclear Explosion DataBase, Bulletin of ...

If a weapon similar to the B-83 - the biggest bomb in the current US nuclear stockpile - were to explode in the Arizona city, the devastation would be unimaginable. The B-83 had a yield of 1.2 ...

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 ...

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 ...