Nukemap, developed by Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., allows us to make the threat of nuclear attack personal. It is easy to ignore ...

Decade-old nuclear blast simulator, Nukemap is trending again, coinciding with nuclear war fears in the wake of Russian invasion of Ukraine. Created in February 2012, by Alex Wellerstein, a nuclear ...

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Seventy years ago this month the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings killed more than 129,000 people. The first atomic bomb, named ...

Nuking the city of New York was terrifyingly easy and disturbingly informative. From the bank of the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey, while gazing out at the Manhattan skyline, I simply moved my ...

Everyone has wondered, from time to time, whether or not they would survive a nuclear war. But as disasters about which to be paranoid and terrified go, nuclear armageddon is frustratingly imprecise.

It is possible to simulate the number of casualties and the extent of the influence by radioactive pollutants by dropping a number of nuclear weapons which have a name in history to a favorite place ...

(WRTV) — As the tensions continue between the United States and North Korea, the possibility of a nuclear attack has become real for the first time in 30 years. The threats have continued to escalate ...

That picture right there is what would happen if you dropped the world's largest nuke, the Soviet Tsar Bomba, in its theoretical 100 Megaton configuration onto the Foxtrot Alpha World Headquarters.

(WRTV) — As the tensions continue between the United States and North Korea, the possibility of a nuclear attack has become real for the first time in 30 years. The threats have continued to escalate ...

(WRTV) — As the tensions continue between the United States and North Korea, the possibility of a nuclear attack has become real for the first time in 30 years. The threats have continued to escalate ...