As World War II slipped into the Cold War, the US...  ...pped into the Cold War, the US conducted tests of nuclear weapons in the surface, in the air, and underwate...  ...reason not to verify an agreement with them about nuclear testing. Got that? Geologic requirements pointed...

Have you ever wondered about the effects of a nuclear bomb going off in your city? Of course you have, unles...  ...pull up a map by city name or ZIP code, select a bomb , and it shows you how far the fireball, radiation...  ...d how many people would be killed. There are four bombs...

Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Labo...  ...ional Laboratory have been analyzing old films of nuclear weapons tests, using more modern equipment to get...

On February 14, 1950, a US Air Force Convair B-36B...  ...crashed while on a training mission to simulate a nuclear attack on San Francisco. The plane was traveling...  ...of Canada. The crew jettisoned the Mark IV atomic bomb , then bailed out, then the plane crashed over the...  ...welve of the 17 crewmen were...

This year marks 70 years since the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After Germany surrende...  ...emands.In early August of 1945, the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which remain the only tim...  ...saki, which remain the only times that the atomic bomb was used...

Stanley Kubrick, who thought that the concept of nuclear war was ludicrous, decided the subject was best h...  ...e or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb starred Peter Sellers and a wonderful ensemble ca...  ...e breakKubrick and his cameraSlim Pickens and the nuclear bomb...

The following is an article from the newest volume...  ...n August 6, 1945, when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city in the closing days of World War II....  ...r II. Sadako, two years old at the time of the bombing , had escaped the blast with only minor injuries....  ...ition worsened her parent's t...

We often think about how future events will change the world. From intelligent machines to the discovery of a extraterrestrial civilization and extra dimensions, these things will blow our collective minds. Scientific Am...

Quick question for you: how many nukes have ever b...  ...shimoto created a video clip mapping every single nuclear explosion from 1945 to 1998:A metronomic beep eve...  ...ject's single test in the US and the two terrible bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended Worl...  ...o, however, once the USSR a...

Nuclear weapon test Romeo (11 megaton) on the Bikini Atol...  ...the Bikini Atoll on April 15, 1954 Just how many nuclear bombs does the United States of America have? For thirt...  ...erica have? For thirty years, the exact number of bombs the Pentagon stockpiles has been a sec...