Being near a nuclear explosion is not high on many people’s priorities. Marching toward it is even less ideal. Yet seven decades ago the United States military put thousands of soldiers near the ...

Frightened residents of Kazan, Russia's fifth-largest city, have taken to social media to share pictures and videos of a cloud that resembles a "nuclear mushroom", local media reported.

Vladimir Putin is set to display Russia's new military might by staging a chilling nuclear war simulation. The technology has been developed to show the effects of a nuclear detonation ...

How the Mushroom Cloud Boomed and Bloomed Across American Pop Culture From the Trinity test to “Oppenheimer” and “Asteroid City,” the symbol of nuclear destruction has held multiple but ...

Ukraine has beaten Russia in a race to shake the steppes with an earthquake and send up a mushroom cloud visible from outer space. For weeks, Russian commentators have urged the Kremlin to drop a ...

An effigy of Ravan exploded during Dussehra celebrations, creating a mushroom cloud and sparking comparisons to a nuclear test. | Trending ...

He wasn’t supposed to do it, but on May 15, 1948, Lieutenant Colonel Paul H. Fackler, commanding officer of the U.S. Air Force 514th Reconnaissance Squadron Weather, flew his airplane into the ...

The US military set off its largest nuclear explosion in testing 69 ... The 23,500-pound device caused a mushroom cloud that reached an altitude of 130,000 feet and left a crater that was 250 ...

See here for the map in a new tab. The first successful nuclear detonation in history was the Trinity test, carried out by the United States Army in July 1945.

Russian scientists built a new simulator to train soldiers for nuclear explosions, state media says. The simulator is set to be used in military exercises to prepare troops for post-blast missions.