We owe a debt of gratitude to the "atomic veterans" of World War II who are eyewitnesses to history’s forgotten casualties of ...

All Robert Friedrichs had to go on was a stage name he found printed under an archival newspaper photo that showed her posing ...

Between 1951 and 1992, hundreds of nuclear tests were performed, mostly underground, in the desert outside Las Vegas.

The regime claimed it was a hydrogen bomb that would fit in a missile capable of reaching the mainland United States. It was North Korea’s sixth nuclear test, the third in two years, and the ...

The mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945, marked the last use of an atomic bomb in combat. Carrier-based U.S. Navy aircraft tear up a bridge over the Yalu River. The war ended ...

After the first atomic bomb explosion (seen here from 10,000 yards away, in a time series from .006 seconds to .081 seconds after detonation), Oppenheimer recalled, "a few people laughed, a few ...

Robert Oppenheimer helped lead the U.S. effort to build the atomic bomb. But he was almost bounced ... surrounded by an enormous mushroom cloud some 40,000 across. The nuclear age had begun ...

Courtesy of Barbara Kent The flakes were fallout from the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, the world’s first atomic bomb detonation ... soil and sent a mushroom cloud up to 70,000 feet ...

and dual-wavelength images of Titan captured by Webb and the Keck telescopes. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and WM Keck Observatories "While previous studies have observed cloud convection at ...

Three days after an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, a second bomber flew from Tinian and detonated another atomic bomb over Nagasaki. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and ...