During the Second World War, America dropped atomic bombs on two cities of Japan - Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But do you know, ...

Scientists simulated a nuclear explosion about 37 times more powerful than Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The simulation helped them identify safe and unsafe indoor spots to shelter during a nuclear attack.

The plane circled back, and at 11:02 a.m. on August 9, 1945, the United States dropped the “Fat Man” bomb on Nagasaki. The bomb caused an explosion 40 percent larger than the Little Boy ...

The most dangerous thing in a nuclear attack is its radiation, which spreads for several kilometers. More deaths occur due to its radiation than the bomb blast. The same thing happened in Hiroshima ...

In 1945, the U.S. bombed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and August ... can harm people not just immediately after the explosion, but also for some time afterward in ...

This suggests that people living in mountainous cities might have a slightly higher chance of survival in a nuclear explosion than those in flat plains. Despite this, the tragic story of Nagasaki ...

And the intense heat of the explosion then created many fires ... but this was obscured by cloud so the bomb was dropped on nearby Nagasaki, an important port. About 40,000 people were killed ...

over the city of Nagasaki, some 185 miles (300 km) northeast of Hiroshima. The plutonium 239 bomb released a 21,000-ton (19,000 metric tons) explosion that produced similar patterns of destruction ...

Immediately after the Nagasaki bombing, at the fortress headquarters 3.5km [2.2 miles] from the hypocenter, an air defense guard was hit by a flash of the explosion as he climbed down the ladder ...

"Under that explosion, I was there. I was there, in Nagasaki," he says. He doesn't remember the blast because he was only 2 years old at the time. His family later explained to him that he ...