A new study from Sandia National Laboratories focuses on how X-rays from a nuclear explosion could impact an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. The studies show that these X-rays might ...

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 ...

According to the scientists, the previous nuclear explosion simulator, the IU-59, is now obsolete and is no longer produced MOSCOW, January 23. /TASS/. Scientists at the General A. V. Khrulev ...

But none of these nuclear explosions are real, of course. They're all simulated via Nukemap, an in-browser app that lets you choose a location anywhere on Earth, adjust a number of options ...

More from How Real Is It? Nuclear-weapons physicist Greg Spriggs rates eight nuclear-explosion scenes in movies. He analyzes the portrayal of nuclear detonations and their effects in Steven ...

The fireball from the nuke may not even touch the ground, and the only radiation would come from the bomb itself and any dust particles in air swept up in the explosion, Stephen Schwartz ...

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