Next month it will have been 80 years since the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by nuclear attacks. More than 200,000 people – mostly citizens – would die by the year's end ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Amid escalating tensions and fear of World War 3 breaking out, here is what to do in the first 10 minutes of a nuclear bomb ...

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

3D illustration of the simulated air blast and generated blast wave 10 seconds following the detonation of a 750 kT nuclear warhead above a typical metropolitan city; the radius of the shock ...

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).