What Is the Difference Between a Hydrogen Bomb and an Atomic Bomb?

North Korea warned this week that it might test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean, after saying the country had already ...
Forbes

History Explodes At Hoylake: WWII Bomb Found At Royal Liverpool

A massive explosion occurred at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake last Friday, December 12, not from a golf shot, but from the controlled detonation of World War II ordnance. “We’ve been ...

World War III? What an atomic bomb detonation in New York’s financial district would look like: detailed simulation

If the bomb detonated at or near ground level, a towering mushroom cloud would form, sucking up soil, steel, concrete, and whatever remains of the people and buildings below. That cloud wouldn’t just ...
The New York Times

Testing America’s Nuclear Bombs: What to Know

Though the country’s nuclear arsenal has undergone no explosive testing for decades, federal experts say it can reliably obliterate targets halfway around the globe. By William J. Broad President ...
India Today on MSN

Will world starve if US-Iran-Israel conflict turns nuclear? Here's what science says

A nuclear escalation in the Middle East would trigger a global catastrophe. Know the physics behind nuclear weapons, and the looming threat of a worldwide nuclear winter.
HUB

Fallout: Eighty years later

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...
Albuquerque Journal

Fascinating and multifaceted: 'Nuclear Family' tells the story of nuclear weapons and Los Alamos as told through one family

From Trinity’s fallout to a New Mexico school underground, “Nuclear Family” traces how the bomb reshaped one family and a ...