Assuming that the missile in "A House of Dynamite" carried a several-hundred-kiloton nuclear warhead and detonated directly above Chicago’s Loop, what would ensue in the seconds, minutes, days, and ...

Seventy years ago this month the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings killed more than 129,000 people. The first atomic bomb, named ...

To find how a nuclear detonation could affect the 23 capitals of the G20 nations and those with a nuclear arsenal, 24/7 Wall St. used Nukemap, a site that simulates detonation of nuclear bombs. We ...

Nuking the city of New York was terrifyingly easy and disturbingly informative. From the bank of the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey, while gazing out at the Manhattan skyline, I simply moved my ...

Federal officials and agencies that work closely on the nuclear weapons arsenal agree: The threat of nuclear conflict is rising and, with it, the risk of an attack on the U.S. In a sense, U.S. nuclear ...

Nuclear weapons may be humanity's most terrifying creations, but most people would be hard-pressed to say what, exactly, such an explosion might do to their town or city. To help the public get a ...