Nuclear bombs do not rely on size, they rely on physics. Here is how chain reactions and hydrogen bombs unleash power on a ...

The front page of the Parkersburg News from Aug. 15, 1945. (Archive Image) Eighty years ago last week our country did something that had never been done before or since. They exploded an “atom bomb” ...

America’s last nuclear detonation was nothing special. Smaller than the bomb that killed 73,000 people in Nagasaki, it exploded 1,397 feet below the Nevada desert. It shook the ground, created a ...

New scientific modeling reveals the shocking distances needed to survive a nuclear bomb explosion and its devastating effects ...

During the Cold War, the US government launched a 1.4 megaton bomb into space. Starfish Prime, as the test was called, was the highest-altitude nuclear test in history. But what would happen if we ...