To date, only the US has ever dropped nuclear bombs on a population — in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Still, the number of nuclear warheads in military stockpiles continues t ...

But none of these nuclear explosions are real ... would be about 10 times that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. So Nukemap predicts that dangerous fallout from such a cataclysm could spread ...

The next danger to avoid is radioactive fallout: a mixture of fission products (or radioisotopes) that a nuclear explosion creates by splitting atoms. Nuclear explosions loft this material high ...

might be attributed to the bomb's nuclear fallout. So, if we had nuked, say, Hurricane Sandy, not only would there have been the $65 billion in damage repair but who knows how much more it would ...

"Fallout: Atoms for War & Peace" explores the ... the exhibit digs into how scientists around the world developed the nuclear bomb and nuclear power stations following World War II.