Nuking the city of New York was terrifyingly easy and disturbingly informative. From the bank of the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey, while gazing out at the Manhattan skyline, I simply moved my ...

Nuclear weapons may be humanity's most terrifying creations, but most people would be hard-pressed to say what, exactly, such an explosion might do to their town or city. To help the public get a ...

Seventy years ago this month the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings killed more than 129,000 people. The first atomic bomb, named ...

To find how a nuclear detonation could affect the 23 capitals of the G20 nations and those with a nuclear arsenal, 24/7 Wall St. used Nukemap, a site that simulates detonation of nuclear bombs. We ...

With the world holding arsenals of nuclear weapons, the risk of nuclear war is always present. Tensions have been rising with Russian threats around the war in Ukraine. Here's what could happen to six ...

A series of chilling maps exposed the devastating damage that could be inflicted on five major U.S. cities if Iran reconstructs its nuclear program and launches a nuclear assault against America in ...

Federal officials and agencies that work closely on the nuclear weapons arsenal agree: The threat of nuclear conflict is rising and, with it, the risk of an attack on the U.S. In a sense, U.S. nuclear ...