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

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 story of the birth and growth of nuclear science is rebalanced in Destroyer of Worlds, which gives due prominence to the ...

The 50-megaton Soviet AN602—more often referred to as "Tsar Bomba," or the "king of bombs"—was responsible for the largest explosion ever created by humans during a test on October 30 ...

The B83 can cause a 1.2 megaton explosion, nearly 80 times larger than the 15 kiloton explosion caused by the “Little Boy” bomb that the United States dropped on Hiroshima in World War II.

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 ...

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.