Next month it will have been 80 years since the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by nuclear attacks.

As global tensions rise, a horrifying simulation paints a vivid picture of the devastation wrought by a nuclear explosion, ...

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A harrowing map shows the catastrophic damage that a nuclear bomb would inflict on New York City, with certain areas being completely vaporized in the explosion ...

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

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

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The website explains it as: "Maximum size of the nuclear fireball; relevance to damage on the ground depends on the height of ...

The United States is developing ‘bunker buster’ bombs that could be four times more powerful than the ones dropped on Iranian ...

If you’ve lived in or visited Manhattan, the landmarks at the epicenter would be familiar – One World Trade, Wall Street, the Brooklyn Bridge. This is rightly strong in the emotional stakes.

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).