These mushroom clouds directly addressed new sources of anxiety: the arms race (set off after the Soviets’ 1949 atomic test), the effects of radiation, and the hydrogen bomb and its even bigger ...

Fireworks for a Fourth of July show prematurely exploded at a Cape Cod golf course on Wednesday afternoon, prompting a ...

Mushroom clouds are commonly associated with nuclear blasts, but this cloud will come from the detonation of a 700-ton explosive charge designed to test new bunker-busting technologies.

The extension of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to 2028 also doubles the amount of money victims could receive to ...

“A mushroom cloud has grown today. This is probably a hint that the ‘mushroom season’ is in full swing,” @khsy_20_ posted on social media. “It is time to pick mushrooms.

But when he saw a mushroom cloud 200 miles in diameter rising to 60,000 feet from 14,000 in about two minutes –that`s about 260 miles an hour–he first thought that it was a Russian missile.

“Mushroom Cloud LA | Proximities” is nothing if not complex and high-tech, and yet the many different artworks that make up the project — the drawings, the video, the AR work — feel ...

Notice the mushroom cloud forming immediately after the explosion. (Image credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images) When a bomb goes off, energy is shot out indiscriminately in all directions.

In a test called "Ivy Mike," the world's first hydrogen bomb explodes on Enewetak Atoll, November 1, 1952. Nuclearweaponarchive.org He wasn’t supposed to do it, but on May 15, 1948, Lieutenant ...

This photo has been misidentified as a mushroom cloud for decades. The Pulitzer Prize winning book from 1986, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, described it as “the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima ...