Stanislav Krapivnik is the man held up in Russia as a hero for basically spying on the US army before returning to Russia, ...

Most civilian satellites are very sensitive to high-energy radiation and an atomic explosion in low Earth orbit would ...

A newly declassified document has named Washington, DC as the first US city to be destroyed in a nuclear war - and a viral ...

Test #123 used a 12.5 megaton nuclear bomb. A bomb of this size would incinerate everything within 2.11 square miles while causing third-degree burns in an area of 1,309 square miles. No footage ...

An American who 'gave up the rat race' has revealed what he found when visiting a remote Caribbean island that is too ...

You can see it for yourself. That was Starfish Prime — the highest-altitude nuclear test in history. In 1962, the US government launched a 1.4 megaton bomb from Johnston Island. And detonated it ...

The heat release of a hurricane is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes. Atlantic hurricane season starts early Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones: What's the difference?

It later emerged that the bomb could have been even more powerful - it was originally designed to generate a 100-megaton blast, but was scaled back to prevent the nuclear fallout affecting the ...

"If Europe will behave badly, just send a mini-nuclear powered submarine there with a 200 megaton bomb on board, put it in the southern part of the North Sea, and 'let rip' when we need to.

The Russia-Ukraine war is escalating, with President Vladimir Putin amending the country’s nuclear doctrine. This has shone a ...

Let's assume the detonation of a 1-megaton nuclear bomb in central Seoul, around Gwanghwamun Square, for illustration. The damage can be divided into specific zones, extending outward from ground ...

Bhabha said that less than $21 million would buy a stockpile of 50 atomic bombs; for an additional $10 million, India could build 50 two-megaton H ... that an Indian bomb “would be a moral ...