Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. AP/Wide World Photos ...

Nuclear-weapons physicist Greg Spriggs rates eight nuclear-explosion scenes in movies such as "Oppenheimer" (2023) and Marvel's "The Avengers" (2012).

On October 30, 1961, the USSR detonated a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb over Novaya Zemlya. The explosion remained unparalleled in ...

Ahead of the International Day against Nuclear Tests on August 29 2018, we met up with British atomic veterans who were present at test sites in Australia and the Pacific, to find out what it’s like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When an atomic bomb detonates, it produces a unique chemical environment that's nearly impossible to mimic in a lab—and amid its ...

The First World War witnessed countless devastating battles, but one explosion in 1917 stood out for its sheer scale. Years before the atomic bomb changed warfare forever, Allied forces unleashed what ...

In the 1950s the American public accepted above-ground nuclear bomb blasts just 65 miles from Las Vegas as part of the Cold ...

North Korea is the only country known to have conducted a nuclear explosive test in the 21st century.

The US accused China of secret nuclear tests, banned under international agreement, that were building toward tests of larger ...

The scene of destruction after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb ...

A fire at a national lab in South Carolina that is on a site that once made key parts for nuclear bombs triggered an ...