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

If Russia did unleash a payload of nuclear missiles as it threatened to do today, this is the possible effect on many of the ...

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

A series of terrifying maps revealed the level of damage that could occur to five major U.S. cities if Iran rebuilds its nuclear program and launches a nuclear attack against the U.S. in the future.

FILE - The first U.S. atom bomb explodes during a test in Alamogordo, N.M., July 16, 1945. The cloud went 40,000 feet in the air, as viewed by an automatic camera six miles away from the site. (AP ...

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 ...

QUETTA, Pakistan, Sept 2 (Reuters) - A bomb blast killed at least 11 people at a public rally in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta late on Tuesday, officials said. The Islamic State militant ...

Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about the growing support of global leaders ...

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...

It was a full-on nuclear explosion. Just like the Pacific Testing Grounds near the Marshall Islands and French Polynesia. But this political blast tore through the Senate chamber. In November 2013, ...