Next month it will have been 80 years since the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by nuclear attacks.

Echoing earlier reports, a one-megaton nuclear explosion could produce sweltering heats, possibly quadrupling or quintupling ...

THE explosion of the Soviet 50 megaton bomb in the vicinity of Novaya Zemlya at approximately 0833 G.M.T. on October 30, 1961, produced pressure oscillations in the atmosphere that were recorded ...

Bravo was anticipated as a 6-megaton explosion. Instead, the bomb produced a 15-megaton fission blast. Its mushroom cloud reached 114,000 feet into the air. The US military's miscalculation of the ...

In 1980, a dropped socket wrench triggered a chain reaction inside a Titan II missile silo—putting a 9-megaton warhead at the brink of detonation. The world came terrifyingly close to disaster.

Recalling a 500 pound bunker buster going off, a source told The Post, “It shakes your teeth. It’s like being in an ...

The 15-megaton volcanic explosion from Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, one of the largest natural explosions in more than a century, generated a mega-tsunami with waves up to 45-meters high (148 feet ...

The explosion was thought to have a yield of about 1 megaton, equivalent to a million tons of TNT. The explosion was carried out in the desert wastelands of Xinjiang province in northwestern China ...

Designed as a 100-megaton bomb, Tsar Bomba was considered ... resulting in the most powerful human-made explosion ever recorded. Ironically, it may also have made the world a slightly safer ...

It rivals the massive Krakatau volcanic explosion near Indonesia in 1883 ... A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the 15-megaton blast as 15,000 tons. The article has been corrected.