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

The risk of nuclear war is arguably higher than it's been since the 1980s, due to ongoing conflicts and tensions. So what would happen if a nuclear bomb was dropped on New York City?

This was Trinity — the world’s first nuclear explosion, marking the moment humankind crossed into the atomic age.Part of The Manhattan Project led by J Robert Oppenheimer, Trinity was a codename ...

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.

However, the maps visualizing explosions of the most powerful nuclear weapons that remain in the U.S. stockpile show that they would be considerably more destructive than the new model.

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) ...

"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 ...

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.

Having witnessed one thermonuclear explosion, I hope that no humans ever have to witness another. Rod Buntzen is the author of “The Armageddon Experience: A Nuclear Weapons Test Memoir.” ...

I detonated a 15-kiloton nuclear weapon in New York City using Nukemap VR, and I was surprised by the scale of the simulated carnage.

The video shows both the initial assembly of the enormous bomb, over six feet in diameter and about 60,000 pounds or over 27,000 kilograms, and the bomb’s ultimate explosion over the large ...

Nuclear weapons are far more destructive than they were in the 1960s. I don’t think bomb shelters like the one my dad built would do much good this time.