"If you are further away and you keep inside and behind concrete, then you can avoid both the initial flash of the nuclear blast and also could probably withstand the shockwaves and the heat wave ...

The peril of nuclear explosions isn't just the initial bright flash blindness or the ensuing blast wave, which can wreak havoc on people and structures miles away. Post-explosion, radiation ...

The blast wave at the base, sweeping in its path structures ... But in 1948, Igor Kurchatov, director of the Soviet nuclear program, set up a second team to investigate the feasibility of the ...

“The consensus is that the weapons were capable of exploding and delivering a nuclear blast sufficient to level homes in a five-mile radius and cause third-degree burns and set houses afire ...

This is the E-4B "Nightwatch." It's basically a flying war room designed to withstand a nuclear blast. Ryan Pickrell: I like to think of the E-4B as kind of like a flying backup Pentagon.