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

As online maps circulate, pinpointing where a nuclear conflict might erupt in the US, it's been revealed that the nation's ...

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 ...

Castle Bravo, detonated on February 28, 1954, was the first of the Castle series of tests and the largest US nuclear blast of all time. Bravo was anticipated as a 6-megaton explosion.

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

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.

The 2022 eruption of a submarine volcano in Tonga was more powerful than the largest U.S. nuclear explosion, according to a new study. The 15-megaton volcanic explosion from Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha ...

WASHINGTON — China set off the largest underground nuclear test it has ever conducted, the State Department said yesterday. The explosion was thought to have a yield of about 1 megaton ...

A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the 15-megaton blast as 15,000 tons. The article has been corrected. The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai undersea volcano eruption in 2022 was ...

The Explosion Almaz Mustafin/Shutterstock When Major Andrei Durnovstev climbed into his modified Tu-95V on the morning of October 30th, 1961, with the Tsar Bomber onboard, he knew that he and his ...