Authorities are still investigating what caused the blast, which neighbors described as nothing short of terrifying.

Footage captured during US nuclear weapons testing during the 1950's and 60's shows the horror of what a nuclear explosion ...

On July 16, 1945, the first nuclear explosion occurred in a test near Los Alamos, New Mexico, according to the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center. The atomic bomb test was code named "Trinity" and ...

The world's largest and the most powerful nuclear bomb ever tested is Tsar Bomba, officially known as "product 602" or "AN602 ...

GLADSTONE, Mo. -- A man and dog were killed in an explosion that destroyed a house near Kansas City, Missouri. Several nearby ...

Their investigation simulated the effects of an atomic bomb explosion from a typical intercontinental ballistic missile and the subsequent blast wave on individuals seeking shelter indoors.

Immediately after the Nagasaki bombing, at the fortress headquarters 3.5km [2.2 miles] from the hypocenter, an air defense guard was hit by a flash of the explosion ... of the Atomic Bomb as ...

The explosion cloud may have reached ... In this experimental atomic detonation, only three of the 13 pounds of plutonium at the bomb’s center underwent fission. The rest dispersed in the ...

The first nuclear explosion was of a plutonium implosion ... uniquely qualified to overcome the challenges of building an atomic bomb by managing other brilliant scientists, whose egos were ...

The United States had just dropped an atomic bomb on Chieko's home city of Hiroshima ... It was a mixture of radioactive material and residue from the explosion. The journey home “was a ...

said that it would be "by far the largest accidental explosion of ammonium nitrate were it to detonate." "In fact the [atomic] bomb in Hiroshima was 15 kilotons [15,000 tons] [and] Nagasaki was 20 ...