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

No nuclear bombs have been used as weapons since the attacks on Japan, but thousands of tests have been conducted — primarily by the US and USSR throughout the Cold War.

What we know -- and don't -- about the mysterious Russian nuclear-propelled missile explosion The blast last Friday killed seven people.

Radioactive nuclear fallout is impossible to escape — most Americans, and certain sea creatures that live on the ocean bottom, have traces of it in their systems.

China's state TV broadcaster has revealed details of a new "graphite bomb" that can cause a "complete loss of electricity" across an area of 10,000 square meters, or knock out entire power stations, ...

A nuclear bomb is a bomb that makes explosions by changing the nucleus of an atom in a way that releases a lot of energy.

A version of this article appears in print on March 29, 2022, Section A, Page 23 of the New York edition with the headline: What It’s Like to Witness a Nuclear Explosion.

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 ...

Laser-based 'optical tweezers' could levitate uranium and plutonium particles, thus allowing the measurement of nuclear recoil during radioactive decay. This technique provides a new method for ...

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.

Crustaceans in the Mariana Trench and other underwater canyons feed on food from the surface laced with carbon-14 from Cold War bomb tests ...

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 ...