Meet the Nuclear Weapons Nerds
John Coster-Mullen was driving his truck to a warehouse in Oshkosh, Wisconsin when he told me that he owns uranium.…
This Is the Most Cinematic Nuclear Bomb Footage I've Ever Seen
Over the past two years, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has been digitizing old, never-before-seen…
Satellite Analysis Shows North Korea’s 2017 Nuclear Test Literally Moved a Mountain
By combining satellite radar with seismic data, an international team of researchers has re-assessed the effects of…
Blow Up Your House With the Prettiest Nuclear Bomb Simulator
What would happen if a nuclear weapon fell in your backyard? You and everything around you would be destroyed, of…
The 9 Most Nightmarish Movies About Nuclear Attacks
Film, especially science fiction, has always loved to explore the future we are most afraid of. That’s why nukes have…
‘Limited’ Nuclear Strikes Could Still Wreak Climate Havoc
With the Cold War a fading memory, some nuclear powers have adopted strategies allowing for limited nuclear strikes.…
So How Close Do You Live to a Nuclear Bomb?
Hooray. If you live south of the Equator or in any of the countries that light up green in the map above, you’re good.…
Could We Survive a Nuclear Winter?
Here’s the short answer: we probably could not survive a nuclear winter. But the long answer, well, it depends on which…
The True Scale of Nuclear Bombs Is Totally Frightening
Nuclear weapons are already scary enough, but when you dig deeper and find out how powerful the weapons truly are, they…
All the Largest Nuclear Explosions in History
Nuclear bombs are the deadliest weapons we’ve ever created because of the destruction they’ve caused to human life and…
North Korea Says It Has a Hydrogen Bomb, Experts Call BS
East Asia’s secluded dictatorship says it’s got the technology to make monstrously destructive hydrogen bombs. Fat…
Stunning map visualization shows every nuclear detonation since 1945
The nuclear bomb, that devastatingly powerful world killer of a weapon, has been around for 70 years. The first nuclear…
10 of the craziest nuclear bomb explosions in movie history
There have been over 2,000 nuclear explosions in real life but if we believe the movies, it seems like every other…
How To Fight Fire With Nuclear Bombs
In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States attempted to improve the image of nuclear bombs by using them for public…
You Can Buy This Window From the Manhattan Project for a Small Fortune
Bonhams auction house is gearing up for a big "History of Science" sale on October 22. Among the many intriguing lots…
Less than two percent of the Hiroshima bomb's uranium actually detonated
Little Boy, the nuclear bomb that U.S. forces dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, leveled a…
Why Do Clouds Suddenly Form Around Nuclear Explosions?
Back when open-air tests of nuclear weapons were common, scientists noticed that clouds would suddenly burst into…
That time we nearly nuked Canada (with their permission)
The fifties and sixties were a crazy time when it came to nuclear bombs. Half the population was trying to build…
Watch a nuclear bomb create a lake
This is the Chagan nuclear test. It was part of a larger effort to both test nuclear weapons and to use those weapons…
Being a Courier For The Manhattan Project Sounded Like An Awful Job
What would you do if your boss handed you a mysterious box and said that if anything weird started happening with it,…