To date, only the US has ever dropped nuclear bombs on a population — in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Still, the number of ...

If the bomb detonated at or near ground level, a towering mushroom cloud would form, sucking up soil, steel, concrete, and ...

The Atomic Bomb Dome, also known as the Genbaku Dome, stands as a haunting yet powerful reminder of the devastation wrought ...

After 52 months of studying atom-bomb damage to buildings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Atomic Energy Commission ... considered only the blast, which affects a much larger area than the radiation.

including the thermobaric bomb, which produces a blast that is "second only to a nuclear bomb", said news.com. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The ...

A reader responds to a story about today's school shooter drills with a recollection of drills in the late 1950s to prepare ...

Many were stationed at blast sites, so the "effects on humans ... their eyes" with their bare hands as they waited for a nuclear bomb to be dropped into the sea behind them is "eerie and nightmarish".

Damascus (AFP) – A massive explosion believed to have been triggered by a scrap dealer handling an old bomb killed at least 16 people in Syria, civil defence officials said Sunday. The blast on ...

Atomic bomb survivor Mise Seiichiro "The moment it flashed, I covered my ears and eyes, and laid down in front of the organ," Mise recalls. "I then heard a bang, and a powerful blast of wind blew ...

A bomb explosion during Friday prayers at a South Waziristan mosque injured four, including JUI district chief Maulana Abdullah Nadeem. The blast occurred at Maulana Abdul Aziz Mosque, with an IED ...