A 110-degree day in Las Vegas, a city dedicated to entertainment and capitalism, seems a strange place to commemorate the 80 th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Yet Las Vegas has its ...

The Tsar Bomba's explosion was unparalleled in power. With a 50 megaton capacity, this nuclear test was estimated to be 3,800 times the strength of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. And although short video ...

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 ...

Hundreds of Allied prisoners of war were held in Japanese camps in Nagasaki when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb 80 years ago ...

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 ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Shortly before the 80 th anniversary of nuclear attack on Hiroshima early this month, several dozen elementary school students met with atomic bomb survivor and farmer Toshiyuki ...

President Donald Trump has called for the United States to test its nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades. But Trump’s statements about testing — in particular, whether other nations are ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - If U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Richard Correll thought he was going to have an easy confirmation hearing on Thursday to become the commander of America's nuclear forces, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — New tests of the U.S. nuclear weapons system ordered up by President Trump will not ...

Hydronuclear experiments, barred globally since the 1990s, may lie behind President Trump’s call last month for the United States to resume its testing of nuclear bombs. By William J. Broad President ...