Feedback is intrigued (and terrified) by a new paper that suggests you could set off a ridiculously gigantic nuclear bomb ...

During World War II, few working on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb had a good understanding of the effect of nuclear radiation. Before 1963, it was common to conduct ...

However, according to reports, its not yet known whether the US has deployed the B61-12 nuclear bomb at NATO bases in Europe or if the deployment is still being processed. This B61-12 nuclear bomb ...

Summary: Speculative discussions on using atomic bombs against the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) suggest that, under ideal conditions, such an attack could have significantly damaged the IJN’s ...

Since mid-2019, Iran has significantly shortened its “breakout time”—the amount of time needed to produce enough weapons-grade highly enriched uranium (HEU) to build a nuclear weapon to mere days. How ...

Roughly 92 pounds of weapons-grade uranium is enough to create one nuclear bomb, reported Reuters. "One can gather from the first statements from President Trump and some others in the new ...

At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons. That era is now over.

Chinese researchers have allegedly developed a new high-power microwave (HPM) weapon with power equivalent to electromagnetic energy released by a nuclear explosion. Reportedly also relatively compact ...

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to dropping a nuclear bomb on Alaska. But they are not the only country to go wild with these weapons of mass destruction. In the 1950s, the UK worked on a plan that would involve placing a bunch ...