From ground zero to miles away a brutal animation shows the horror a nuclear detonation would have on the human body, including blindness, radiation burns and total vapourisation.

On July 16, 1945, the United States conducted the world’s first-ever nuclear test, known as the Trinity test, in the desert of New Mexico. This test marked a watershed moment in history, not ...

Scientists have tapped artificial intelligence and powerful computing to take a first step to speed up how quickly officials ...

A mushroom cloud caused by the Tsar Bomba nuclear explosion is shown in the USSR on Oct. 30, 1961. Rosatom/YouTube The footage also offers a brief glimpse of the test site before and after the bomb.

An interactive tool called NukeMap simulates the consequences of a nuclear weapon's impact. Using updated Cold War models of nuclear explosions, the tool provides an overview of the simulated scale of ...