It's not the largest conventional bomb the United States has ever built – that honor goes to the 43,600-pound T-12 of the 1950s –– but it is the largest bomb ever dropped by the military in ...

All eyes are on B-2 stealth bombers that have been deployed from the US as back-and-forth attacks between Israel and Iran enter a second week. The warplanes are all capable of delivering both ...

In the study, scientists simulated an atomic bomb explosion from a typical intercontinental ballistic missile and the resulting blast wave to understand how it would affect people sheltering indoors.

Nuclear bombs are measured by their yield as it is compared to conventional TNT explosives, meaning that a one kiloton nuclear bomb has the same amount of energy as 1,000 tons of TNT.

“Oppenheimer” opened in movie theaters on Friday. Helmed by “Interstellar” director Christopher Nolan, the film stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist who was pivotal ...

The team simulated a nuclear explosion from a 750-kiloton atomic bomb. For reference, the bombs the US dropped at Hiroshima was 15 kilotons and at Nagasaki was 25 kilotons.