Say, for example, the Russians decided to launch a 200 kiloton RS-24 Yars at the fine city of Manchester and hit it dead on centre, according to Nukemap the initial fireball would have a radius of ...

The latest scientific research on nuclear bomb survival distances offers crucial insights into the safest areas to take shelter during such an event, and the various factors that influence survival ...

The loudest sound ever recorded was the 1883 Krakatoa volcanic eruption—which reached 310 decibels and was heard thousands of ...

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (KABC) -- Sirens went off three times between 10 a.m. and noon Wednesday in the San Onofre area, possibly the final drill from the San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station, as the ...

Eighty years ago, a weapon was used which would transform modern warfare and the entire world forever. Hiroshima, in Japan, was the target of the first ever nuclear weapon, dropped by the US Air Force ...

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...

Imagine, if you will, that for unknown reasons North Korea has just launched a nuclear bomb at the United States. What happens next? The journalist Annie Jacobsen has imagined exactly that, and spent ...