Groundbreaking innovations, those that shape history, often introduce immeasurable opportunity as well as profound risk. The recent release of the film “Oppenheimer” underscores this truth. The film ...

Frightened residents of Kazan, Russia's fifth-largest city, have taken to social media to share pictures and videos of a cloud that resembles a "nuclear mushroom", local media reported. Residents of ...

The mushroom-shaped cloud in San Antonio on Saturday evening. (Delia, a KSAT viewer) SAN ANTONIO – A stunning, mushroom-shaped cloud was spotted in the San Antonio area as the sun was setting on ...

When a bomb goes off, energy is shot out indiscriminately in all directions. So, instead of an expanding ball of fire, why do nuclear explosions result in mushroom clouds? Although the outburst of ...

From the Trinity test to “Oppenheimer” and “Asteroid City,” the symbol of nuclear destruction has held multiple but equally disturbing meanings. By Nicolas Rapold Witnesses to the Trinity test, the ...

Capping a week when the last thing anyone wanted to hear about was news of a mushroom cloud, a viral photo of a glorious, impossibly symmetrical storm cloud has nevertheless entranced the internet ...