While the prospect of a nuclear bomb being dropped on New York City is decidedly slim, the simulation - created by expert ...

The B61 bomb’s reported yield will be adjustable to between 0.3 and 50 kilotons. A kiloton is the equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT. Although not possessing the long-distance standoff capacity of either ...

Many were stationed at blast sites, so the "effects on humans" could be recorded ... eyes" with their bare hands as they waited for a nuclear bomb to be dropped into the sea behind them is ...

In the 1950s, nuclear weapons were regularly detonated aboveground to see what the effects would be on people and buildings .

Since mid-2019, Iran has significantly shortened its “breakout time”—the amount of time needed to produce enough weapons-grade highly enriched uranium (HEU) to build a nuclear weapon to mere days. How ...

The intel was gathered in the final months of the Biden administration and shared with the new administration of Donald Trump ...

Jan. 19, 1882: William Snyder Webb, University of Kentucky administrator and developer on the atom bomb, is born in Fayette County. Webb was an educator, a scientist, an anthropologist and a ...