As an example, you can use the model to estimate what would happen to the largest cities in the U.S. if a nuclear bomb as powerful as the infamous "Tsar Bomba" was detonated on them.

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 ...

"Modern nuclear weapons have so-called use controls, which prevent their undesired detonation," Bleek said. "For example, a missile warhead needs to experience certain conditions before it arms ...

The biggest discrepancy between the two bomb types is their yield, or the energy released upon detonation. The highest thermobaric weapon, Russia's "Father of All Bombs," displayed a yield of 44 ...

The largest nuclear explosion ever detonated was the Soviet Union’s RDS-220, or Tsar Bomba, a 50 megaton hydrogen bomb. That test explosion took place over an Arctic Ocean island on Oct. 30, 1961.

Deadlier weapons, more nations, autocrats in charge, disinformation and collapsing arms control — the risk of nuclear catastrophe is back.

You are in a large city that has just been subjected to a single, low-yield nuclear detonation, between 0.1 and 10 kilotons. This is much less powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima — about ...

Does not knowing where you'd take shelter in the event of a single, low-yield (0.1-10 kilotons) nuclear detonation in a major urban area keep you awake at night? We thought so. But don't worry ...

To put this into perspective, the largest ever nuclear explosion, known as the Tsar Bomba, had a yield of 50 megatons (which is the equivalent of 50,000,000 tons of TNT).

To determine what a nuclear war would do to the world, 24/7 Wall St. pulled information from the book “Nuclear Choices for the Twenty-First Century: A Citizen’s Guide” written by Richard ...

It is estimated that virtually 100% of the people within a 500-meter radius of the detonation, and 90% within a 1,000-meter radius, died in Nagasaki during the first three months after the explosion.

While it is the main source of danger in a non-nuclear explosion—like the one that rocked Beirut in 2020, which was caused by a large quantity of flammable ammonium nitrate stored at the city ...