Nature suffers too. After the blast, a huge firestorm can start, fed by strong winds. It can burn for hours, using up all the ...

It’s been 80 years since a nuclear bomb was last used in war, but these weapons continue to haunt us due to their frightening destructive capabilities.

Within a 6-kilometer radius of a 1 megaton bomb, blast waves would produce 180 metric tons of force on the walls of all two-story buildings, and wind speeds of 255 kilometers/hour (158 mph).

A chilling map developed by nuclearsecrecy.com reveals the catastrophic impact a nuclear bomb detonated in New York City ...

The map - which is, thankfully, hypothetical, but based on expert finding from Alex Wellerstein, a nuclear historian at the ...

The map created using a simulation tool shows the devastating impact of a hypothetical U.S. nuclear strike on Tehran, Isfahan, and Qom.

Ogura can still remember that terrible morning in August, 80 years ago. Her older brother, who later died of cancer from ...

With fears of World War 3 mounting, a nuclear attack survival guide has been released detailing what you should do in the first 10 minutes after a nuclear bomb has gone off ...

When the US warplane dropped a 4,400kg atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and 43 seconds later it detonated 600 metres above the city, ...

Nuclear weapons are being talked about again after Donald Trump bombed Iran for allegedly developing them, but should we be worried?

According to The Guardian, which cited weapon experts and debris recovered from the site, the Israeli military used a 230-kg ...

That was the deathbed vow he made to one of the last survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb blasts, to direct a ...