A bomb of this size would create a fireball 6.4 square miles large and would be able to give humans third-degree burns within 4,080 square miles of the bomb's epicenter. The first atomic bomb NukeMap ...

In 1961, the Soviet Union tested a nuclear bomb so powerful that it would have been too big to use in war. And it had far-reaching effects of a very different kind.

Is there a minimum size for an atomic bomb? Would it be possible to make a microscopic one that results in a very small explosion? Simon McLeish Lechlade, Gloucestershire, UK.

Find out just how close the Nazis came to building atomic weapons during World War II, and view the only known diagram of a German nuclear bomb.

Seven decades after the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, a 99-year-old veteran refuses to give up his life’s mission — to ensure nuclear warfare never happens again. The city of ...

Atomic bombs came in different shapes based on their physics. At Wendover Air Force Base, they were tried on for size. By Caroline Delbert Published: Aug 01, 2023 2:47 PM EDT ...

The lives of two atomic bombing survivors have become unexpectedly linked through the rescue of a life-size model of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima that was bound for the junkyard.

If the atomic bomb had been successfully tested in, say, 1943, it probably would have been dropped on Germany, not Japan. “The Germans owed a lot to Szilard,” Isidor Rabi, another atomic ...

In 1961, the Soviet Union tested a nuclear bomb so powerful that it would have been too big to use in war. And it had far-reaching effects of a very different kind.