Footage captured during US nuclear weapons testing during the 1950's and 60's shows the horror of what a nuclear explosion ...

Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most memorable, effective, and devastating nuclear bomb explosions in movies. Be warned, this list is full of spoilers.

“The Beginning or the End,” cited by many film historians as the first full-length nuclear bomb movie, debuted in 1947, just two years after the U.S. tested the first atomic bomb and then ...

Nuclear-weapons physicist Greg Spriggs rates eight nuclear-explosion scenes in movies. He analyzes the portrayal of nuclear detonations and their effects in Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and ...

Historically, movies like Armageddon and Deep Impact ... they were able to simulate the effects of a nuclear explosion on a small-scale asteroid-like object. According to Nathan Moore, a physicist ...

Disarming a nuclear bomb. Say a ragtag group of evildoers led ... This is the stuff that, in the movies, is often presented as inputting some codes, or two military higher-ups having to turn ...

Hollywood movies such as "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact ... burst the researchers needed to simulate a similar one from a nuclear explosion. "You have to concentrate a lot of power, about 80 ...

These films reconnected the near-cliché of the ... Three years later, a nuclear explosion was just the icing on the action-adventure cake in Cameron’s “True Lies.” Call it the decadent ...