On July 16, 1945, the US conducted the world's first test of a nuclear weapon. Less than a month later, two bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing about the ...

Map of every nuclear-bomb explosion in history . An curved arrow pointing right. X ... On July 16, 1945, the US conducted the world's first test of a nuclear weapon.

On July 16, 1945, the US conducted the world's first test of a nuclear weapon. Less than a month later, two bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing about the end ...

Nuclear weapons tests have been taking place for decades. And now you can view virtually every test that has occurred thanks to a fascinating new video posted to Vimeo. The video is essentially a ...

The nuclear bomb, that devastatingly powerful world killer of a weapon, has been around for 70 years. The first nuclear bomb—Trinity—was detonated in a test in New Mexico in 1945, a month ...

In 1996, countries with nuclear capability signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Though this has not yet been enforced, the last tests by the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia were ...

A new map has revealed the terrifying spread of radioactive fallout from US nuclear tests, showing the contamination in 46 ...

China broke the Western monopoly on nuclear weapons when it exploded an atomic bomb on October 16, 1964 at the Lop Nur test site. In less than three years, on June 17, 1967, Beijing claimed it had ...

The third most powerful test took place earlier in 1962, with a yield of 21.1 megatons. Much like the other very high-yield Soviet bomb tests, Test 147 was detonated in the air over Novaya Zemlya ...

The Russian state nuclear agency Rosatom this week released 59-year-old video footage of the world’s largest hydrogen bomb being tested. The so-called “Tsar Bomba” was exploded above the ...

President-elect Donald Trump tweeted that the US needed to "expand its nuclear capability." When he was later asked about the tweet by "Morning Joe" host Mika Brzezinski, Trump responded "let it ...