With the world holding arsenals of nuclear weapons, the risk of nuclear war is always present. Tensions have been rising with Russian threats around the war in Ukraine. Here's what could happen to six ...

Imagine a 150-kiloton nuclear bomb exploded in the city closest to you. Do you know how the city, its surrounding region, and its inhabitants would be affected? If you can't think of much more than "a ...

Decade-old nuclear blast simulator, Nukemap is trending again, coinciding with nuclear war fears in the wake of Russian invasion of Ukraine. Created in February 2012, by Alex Wellerstein, a nuclear ...

Everyone has wondered, from time to time, whether or not they would survive a nuclear war. But as disasters about which to be paranoid and terrified go, nuclear armageddon is frustratingly imprecise.

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 ...

Nukemap is an interactive website which can be configured to show what would happen if the US and North Korea dropped nuclear bombs on Guam and Pyongyang. Created by Alex Wellerstein, a computer ...

EVER wondered what the devastating impact would be if a nuclear bomb dropped on your area? A terrifying tool reveals how some of the most destructive weapons known to humankind would pan out if ...

WAR in Eastern Europe is looking increasingly likely as Vladimir Putin ignores calls to back down over the Ukraine border crisis. Will there be a nuclear war, and could Russia bomb Ukraine? Despite ...

The impact of a nuclear war between the US and Russia has been mapped as part of a horrifying simulation produced by Princeton University. Titled ‘Plan A’, the simulation has been developed by the ...