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Declassified Footage: An Atomic Bomb Too Big to Actually Use

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 ...
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Scientists reveal nuclear blast survival radius in new study

The latest scientific research on nuclear bomb survival distances offers crucial insights into the safest areas to take shelter during such an event, and the various factors that influence survival ...
Science News

If another country tested nuclear weapons, here’s how we’d know

President Donald Trump has called for the United States to test its nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades. But Trump’s statements about testing — in particular, whether other nations are ...
Los Angeles Times

U.S. plans for nuclear weapons testing won’t include explosions, Energy secretary says

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — New tests of the U.S. nuclear weapons system ordered up by President Trump will not ...
The New York Times

Why Didn’t ‘A House of Dynamite’ Show a Nuclear Explosion?

A mother and child in Hiroshima a few months after the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945.Credit...Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock Supported by By ...
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Yes, The US Has Lost Not One, But Six Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear weapons are the single-most destructive explosives humanity has created and deployed in warfare. Because of their destructive power that can wipe away whole cities, you'd think that the United ...