Eric S. Singer is a cultural historian and author of “Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb,” a young readers edition of Kai Bird ...

A secret detachment of military photographers documented America’s bomb tests.

As global tensions rise, a horrifying simulation paints a vivid picture of the devastation wrought by a nuclear explosion, leaving no distance truly safe.

The picture, shared to Instagram, appears to portray two large nuclear explosions with fallout across Israel. Mehdi Mohammadi ...

A chilling map developed by nuclearsecrecy.com reveals the catastrophic impact a nuclear bomb detonated in New York City would have ...

A nuclear bomb is a bomb that makes explosions by changing the nucleus of an atom in a way that releases a lot of energy.

When the first atomic bomb detonated, the blast created a new mineral never seen before on Earth. This will mark the beginning of a new geological epoch in Earth's history.

No nuclear bombs have been used as weapons since the attacks on Japan, but thousands of tests have been conducted — primarily by the US and USSR throughout the Cold War.

A version of this article appears in print on March 29, 2022, Section A, Page 23 of the New York edition with the headline: What It’s Like to Witness a Nuclear Explosion.

"Our findings confirm there was an explosion, possibly due to a gas-compressed rock, which released energy that equated to five of the largest underground nuclear explosions conducted by North ...

When a nuclear bomb explodes A thermonuclear warhead depends on both fission and fusion to create an explosion. (Image credit: Encyclopaedia Britannica/UIG Via Getty Images) ...

'Oppenheimer' VFX supervisor Andrew Jackson reveals how fervid experimentation led to the creation of the nuclear explosion scene.