The "Fat Man" atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945, remains one of the most significant and terrifying examples of the destructive power of nuclear weapons. In this video, we ...

Following the announcement that the Royal Air Force is regaining nuclear weapons, we explore the service’s history using ...

The UK is looking into acquiring tactical nuclear weapons for the first time in 30 years. It is a sign of a more dangerous world - and one where Britain is more reliant than ever on American military ...

America has retained about 200 examples of its own atomic gravity bomb – the B61-12 – which has a variable yield of anywhere between 0.3 kilotons and 340 kilotons, an upper figure which would ...

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).

Nuclear Lake was formed on 23 February 1971 when the Soviet Union simultaneously fired three nuclear devices buried 127m (417ft) underground. The yield of each device was 15 kilotonnes (about the ...

To the west of Russia's Ural Mountains lies a picturesque body of water called Nuclear Lake. It's difficult to access, and visitors have to travel north by boat along the Kolva and Visherka rivers ...

The latest generation of the American B61 air-launched gravity bomb carries a nuclear warhead with a yield as low as 0.3 kilotons, for example.

The former was envisioned as a primary for the latter, delivering a 1,000-megaton detonation to produce a fusion reaction in the latter that would achieve a 10-gigaton (10,000-megaton) explosion ...

So we tried to replicate that as much as we could,” he continued. The real-life Trinity explosion had a TNT yield of roughly 25 kilotons.

In fact, Frank Pavry (who studied similar shelters surviving near ground zero at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 with the British Mission to Japan) and George R. Stanbury tested 15 Anderson shelters at ...