A secret detachment of military photographers documented America’s bomb tests.

The picture, shared to Instagram, appears to portray two large nuclear explosions with fallout across Israel. Mehdi Mohammadi ...

The 1980s witnessed mass demonstrations demanding a nuclear freeze. Today, the threat of nuclear war is beginning to enter ...

The time between a nuclear explosion and the arrival of the blast wave is just a few seconds, making swift action imperative. Alongside the danger posed by high-speed winds, ...

The third most powerful nuclear detonation in history, it is simply known as "test 147," again not acquiring a nickname like the "Tsar Bomba" did. This bomb clocks in as being about 1,400 times as ...

See here for the map in a new tab. The first successful nuclear detonation in history was the Trinity test, carried out by the United States Army in July 1945.

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.

Recent research indicates that nuclear explosions could be used to prevent catastrophic asteroid collisions with Earth. The idea, while not new, is being revisited with fresh scientific rigor ...

In a nuclear detonation, the thermal and shock effects are the most immediate and are unimaginable. The fission-fusion process that occurs in a thermonuclear explosion happens in a millionth of a ...

Nukemap lets you simulate nuclear explosions on an interactive map. A new version of the tool uses real-time weather to estimate radioactive-fallout zones.

How to survive a nuclear explosion: Scientists reveal the safest places to take shelter when a blast wave hits – and why you should steer clear of any windows, corridors and doors ...

To forestall nuclear use, in the days around Mr. Biden’s fund-raiser appearance Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken called his Russian counterpart, as did Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III ...