While officials emphasise that the likelihood of a nuclear attack on the UK remains extremely small, government guidance outlines practical steps people should take inside their homes to reduce ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17, 2023 – There is no good place to be when a nuclear bomb goes off. Anything too close is instantly vaporized, and radiation can pose a serious health threat even at a distance. In ...

Next month it will have been 80 years since the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by nuclear attacks. More than 200,000 people – mostly citizens – would die by the year's end ...

Nuclear explosions sound like something out of a sci-fi blockbuster, but the terrifying truth is that they aren't confined to fiction. The sheer scale of energy released in a nuclear blast can wipe ...

3D illustration of the simulated air blast and generated blast wave 10 seconds following the detonation of a 750 kT nuclear warhead above a typical metropolitan city; the radius of the shock bubble at ...