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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 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.