The atomic bomb dropped by the US on Hiroshima destroyed the city. More than 140,000 people were killed. A second bomb ...

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima near the end ...

The first series of thermonuclear tests took place on Nov. 1, 1952, on the small Pacific island of Elugelab at Enewetak Atoll ...

When a nuclear weapon detonates, it forms a ball of air hotter than the sun's 15,000,000C (59,000,000F) core. Anything within this radius is transformed into white hot plasma, which is essentially ...