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 ...

Operation Hardtack I, conducted from April 28 to August 18, 1958, saw the detonation of 35 nuclear devices led by the military. "Juniper," shown here, was a 65-kiloton blast set off on an ocean barge.

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.

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.

It's often hard to appreciate how quickly energy gets released in something like a nuclear explosion. The shockwave from the initial blast was so powerful it was felt from over 100 miles (160 km ...

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 ...