The First World War witnessed countless devastating battles, but one explosion in 1917 stood out for its sheer scale. Years before the atomic bomb changed warfare forever, Allied forces unleashed what ...

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. AP/Wide World Photos ...

From the atomic bombing of Hiroshima to North Korea's 2017 nuclear test, this video compares six powerful nuclear weapons and ...

In August of 1945, as World War II was nearing its end, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki three days apart, killing at least 100,000 souls. Tsutomu ...

On October 30, 1961, the USSR detonated a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb over Novaya Zemlya. The explosion remained unparalleled in ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — More than 50,000 people gathered at this city’s Peace Memorial Park on Thursday to remember the victims of the world’s first atomic bombing and hear a renewed appeal for world ...

On August 9, 1945, a second atomic bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, this time at Nagasaki, resulting in Japan’s unconditional surrender. The devastation wrought at Hiroshima three days ...

The scene of destruction after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb ...

In the 1950s the American public accepted above-ground nuclear bomb blasts just 65 miles from Las Vegas as part of the Cold ...