The most powerful weapon in the US nuclear arsenal is the B83 nuclear bomb. Developed in the late 1970s and in use since 1983 ...

The Tsar Bomba remains the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated, a weapon of unimaginable destruction. Designed by the Soviet Union in the 1960s, its explosive yield was 50 megatons of TNT, ...

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 ...

The explosion topped every recorded non-nuclear blast in history, made by man or nature. Some experts estimate the force to be that of five nuclear bombs, though without the radiation.

The story of the birth and growth of nuclear science is rebalanced in Destroyer of Worlds, which gives due prominence to the role of women ...

Andy Haverly, a 25-year-old software engineer with no formal climate science training, has proposed detonating the worlds most powerful nuclear bomb under the ocean floor to accelerate carbon capture.

"Go to the basement or middle of the building. Stay away from the outer walls and roof because radioactive material will ...

From ground zero to miles away a brutal animation shows the horror a nuclear detonation would have on the human body, ...

The U.S. maintains an estimated 100 tactical nuclear weapons deployed in Europe, primarily as B61 gravity bombs, according to a Federation of American Scientists' report.

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that it thought it was too early for anyone to have an accurate picture of the extent of damage ...

Israel accuses Iran of seeking to build a nuclear bomb and says it is acting before that can happen. The U.S. is also considering strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.

A remote area of Kazakhstan was once home to nearly a quarter of the world’s nuclear testing. The impact on its inhabitants has been devastating. ByAlexandra Genova Photographs byPhil Hatcher ...