Hydrogen bombs cause a bigger explosion, which means the shock waves, blast, heat and radiation all have larger reach than an ...

Aug. 6 and Aug. 9 are the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 civilians at Hiroshima was the effect of detonating a 60 million-degree ...

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 ...

If the bomb detonated at or near ground level, a towering mushroom cloud would form, sucking up soil, steel, concrete, and whatever remains of the people and buildings below. That cloud wouldn’t just ...

A US official says a seismic station in Kazakhstan collected evidence of an alleged China nuclear test at Lop Nur in June 2020.

LOS ALAMOS — A sphere of plutonium the size of a grapefruit contains enough energy to erase an entire city from existence. That single fact explains why nuclear weapons remain humanity’s most feared ...

From Trinity’s fallout to a New Mexico school underground, “Nuclear Family” traces how the bomb reshaped one family and a ...