On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated a nuclear weapon so powerful that its shockwave traveled around the Earth ...

North Korea’s interest in nuclear weapons was decades in the making—but its first earnest attempt during the 1990s was ...

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2. At 0530, 16 July 1945, in a remote section of the Alamogordo Air Base, New Mexico, the first full-scale test was made of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When an atomic bomb detonates, it produces a unique chemical environment that's nearly impossible to mimic in a lab—and amid its ...

Nuclear-weapons physicist Greg Spriggs rates eight nuclear-explosion scenes in movies such as "Oppenheimer" (2023) and Marvel's "The Avengers" (2012).

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HIROSHIMA, Japan — More than 50,000 people gathered at this city’s Peace Memorial Park on Thursday to remember the victims of the world’s first atomic bombing and hear a renewed appeal for world ...