A pretty scary map website allows you to really see what would happen if a nuclear blast was to take place near you. In ...

During the Apollo program, astronauts trained in some unexpected places including nuclear bomb craters. These sites offered ...

Life After the Atomic Blast, as Told by Hiroshima’s Survivors Eighty years after the dropping of the first atomic bomb, Hiroshima’s survivors and their descendants describe how health problems and ...

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people and a second bomb on Nagasaki (Aug. 9) killed ...

If anything, the widespread lack of comprehension (and so protest) is one big reason nuclear war remains so chillingly ...

In a relentless, terrifying schedule, the United States detonated more nuclear bombs in the Pacific Proving Grounds between ...

In the late morning hours of August 6, 1945, a single shutter clicked in Hiroshima and recorded what no camera had ever captured before, and none has again: the immediate, lived aftermath of a city ...

More than 600,000 men and women worked on the Manhattan Project nationwide, but only one of them bore witness to all three major atomic blasts in 1945 that led to the end of World War II. Lawrence ...

Cameron’s upcoming film, Ghosts of Hiroshima, will focus on the aftermath of the atomic bombs in Japan - Universal History Archive/Getty “This might be the most challenging film I ever make.” So says ...

There is no good place to be when a nuclear bomb goes off. Anything too close is instantly vaporized, and radiation can pose a serious health threat even at a distance. In between, there is another ...

To protect its radar operators from the impact of a nuclear blast, the MoD ensured staff at ROTOR facilities were housed in ...