What is a mushroom cloud and what causes it? A mushroom cloud is the result of a large explosion. We usually associate mushroom clouds with a nuclear detonation, but they can be caused by many types ...

The Russian military recently blew up Ukraine's natural gas pipeline in Kharkiv, resulting in a massive explosion and a "mushroom cloud." On Sunday, February 27, Ukraine's State Service of Special ...

No need to duck and cover. Russian residents were on cloud nine when they found out that this ominous-looking mushroom in the sky over Siberia wasn’t the result of a nuclear blast. Emergency services ...

For most people, images of a towering mushroom cloud rising over the horizon immediately bring to mind a nuclear weapon detonation. But this iconic shape is produced by large explosions on the ground, ...

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March 30, 2006 — -- A Pentagon test at a Nevada site this June will likely create the first mushroom cloud seen in the state since the United States ceased above-ground nuclear testing in 1963.

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 ...

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 ...

At the height of the Cold War, almost no one was bold enough or foolish enough to predict the Soviet Union's collapse, let alone without the eruption of a nuclear exchange between the two superpowers.

Turning the corner on Broadway to cross 46th street, passersby would be forgiven for thinking they’ve entered a sci-fi fever dream. Who would ever imagine standing in bustling Midtown Manhattan and ...

A HUGE explosion that rocked Lebanon’s capital Beirut in August 2020 created a mammoth mushroom cloud that dwarfed the city. We explain what causes a mushroom cloud, and why it’s not proof of a ...