As global tensions rise, a horrifying simulation paints a vivid picture of the devastation wrought by a nuclear explosion, leaving no distance truly safe.

On July 16, 1945, the US conducted the world's first test of a nuclear weapon. Less than a month later, two bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing about the ...

Detonations from the early days of the Atomic Age through present times are all represented in this grim visualization of the planet’s nuclear activity. Orbital Mechanics, a Montreal-based ...

This isn't the first time someone has made an animation like this. In 2003, Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto made a similar illustration of all the nuclear explosions between 1945 and 1998. "1945 ...

MOSCOW -- The explosion of a suspected Russian nuclear-powered cruise missile last week has caused a lot of confusion and anxiety, fueled in part by Russian authorities' continuing secrecy around ...

Fallout — radioactive material from a nuclear explosion — exists in every corner of the world. Nuclear fallout from a bomb is less dangerous long-term than from a nuclear power plant disaster.

I would like to know what a nuclear bomb actually does – Rafael, age 11, Melbourne. Hi Rafael! A nuclear bomb, like any bomb, makes an explosion by releasing an enormous amount of energy at once.

I watched a hydrogen bomb detonate. ... they left the heavier material particles ... Page 23 of the New York edition with the headline: What It’s Like to Witness a Nuclear Explosion. Order ...

President-elect Donald Trump tweeted that the US needed to "expand its nuclear capability." When he was later asked about the tweet by "Morning Joe" host Mika Brzezinski, Trump responded "let it ...