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 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - With current talk of the threat of nuclear war with North Korea, did you ever wonder what would happen if someone dropped a nuclear weapon on your hometown? There’s an app for ...

Discussions around the threat of nuclear war have escalated in recent weeks, as Sweden and Finland look set to join NATO—and Russia saying it would not accept their membership. But what would happen ...

Does the rising tension between North Korea and the United States have you concerned with recent nuclear missile tests? If so, there is an online tool created by Alex Wellerstein called NUKEMAP that ...