The United States conducted 210 nuclear weapons tests between 1945 and 1962. Decades after the end of the Cold War, thousands ...

The Tsar Bomba's explosion was unparalleled in power. With a 50 megaton capacity, this nuclear test was estimated to be 3,800 times the strength of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. And although short video ...

Pentagon shares test footage of bunker-buster bomb infiltrating cave The Pentagon shared test footage of the "bunker-buster" bomb. It's the same type of munition that was used to strike Iranian ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. To test the impact of an atomic blast on populated areas, technicians built entire fake towns, with houses, shops, and even mannequin families.

Editor's note: If you'd like to pinpoint the instant when the world entered the nuclear age, 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on 16 July 1945, is an excellent choice. That was the moment when human ...