A nuclear explosion is an explosion that occurs as a result of the rapid release of energy from a high-speed nuclear reaction.

Nov 23, 2025 · HASS Associate Professor Alex Wellerstein was quoted in a story about the sequence of events and physical effects produced by a nuclear detonation.

Dec 1, 2025 · By the summer of 1945, the production plants had delivered a sufficient amount of fissionable material to produce a nuclear explosion, and bomb development had advanced to a point …

Learn how nuclear weapons work and the science behind them. The effects of a nuclear weapons are also explained, along with two example scenarios of a nuclear explosion over a city.

Apr 10, 2024 · A nuclear blast, produced by explosion of a nuclear bomb (sometimes called a nuclear detonation), involves the joining or splitting of atoms (called fusion and fission) to produce an intense …

Apr 9, 2025 · Just a few weeks after the Trinity test, the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Japan—one on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and another on Nagasaki on August 9. These bombings marked …

For nuclear devices with a higher yield, heat damage becomes the primary initial effects of concern, eclipsing both the damage from the shockwave and the initial radiation. Radioactive fallout spreads …

Since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons have been detonated over 2,000 times for testing and demonstration. Only a few nations possess such weapons or are …

A nuclear explosion is caused by an uncontrolled chain reaction that splits atomic nuclei (fission) to produce an intense wave of heat, light, air pressure, and radiation, followed by the production and …

Jan 2, 2026 · A nuclear weapon is a device designed to release energy in an explosive manner as a result of nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, or a combination of the two processes.