Nuclear bombs are among the most dangerous weapons ever created. Even though they've only been used in war once when the US ...

Being near a nuclear explosion is not high on many people ... watch as an atomic bomb goes off in the distance, the mushroom cloud billowing up into the sky. Shockwaves shake the cameras and ...

The physicist Enrico Fermi and others likened the furiously rising cloud in the New Mexico desert to a mushroom, and that became the shape now inextricably associated with nuclear explosions.

flash of light and the mushroom cloud of a ground-based nuclear explosion." "Train radiation, chemical and biological ...

Oklahoma skies brought to mind the fallout from a nuclear explosion, caused by a “stunning ... posted online showed a mushroom-shaped cloud rolling out in the city of Norman on Saturday.

Describing the sight of the 20-kiloton explosion, nuclear scientist Dr Robert Oppenheimer ... and the mushroom cloud reached seven times higher than the peak of Mount Everest.

North Carolina was one switch away from either of those bombs creating a nuclear explosion – mushroom cloud and all. "It gives me chills," said Keen. Eight crew were aboard the gas-guzzling B-52 ...

“Sagan soon suggested that he should try to see how a nuclear explosion might be used to detect ... it wouldn’t produce a mushroom cloud because the moon’s lack of atmosphere — prior ...

on Sunday looked like the aftermath of a nuclear bomb, thanks to clouds brought by a strong storm. Video footage of the incident shows a cumulus appearing to move upward through a stratus cloud ...