A black-and-white photo of a Las Vegas dancer posing in a mushroom-cloud swimsuit became iconic of America's "atomic age," but for decades her identity was unknown. The mystery has finally been solved ...

All Robert Friedrichs had to go on was a stage name printed under an archival newspaper photo of her posing with other Las ...

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 ...

A statue of Igor Kurchatov, one of the fathers of the Russian atomic bomb, stands in the town ... powerful winds tearing across the steppe, and mushroom clouds climbing over the horizon.

But a new study out of the U.K. shows many of those treasured images may be scanned, analyzed and turned into data by cloud storage services, and nearly half of parents don’t even realize it.

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 ...

In 1942, one thousand families were pushed out of Oak Ridge, Tennessee as part of The Manhattan Project - the US government's top secret initiative to engineer an atomic bomb What Was on the Menu ...

the headquarters of the Manhattan Project that had developed the atomic bomb. The science of Oppenheimer: meet the Oscar-winning movie’s specialist advisers In 1951, the Los Alamos theoretical ...

In a test, it had exploded with a force nearly 1,000 times as powerful as the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima, its power greater than all the explosives used in World War II. To his reverential ...

John Morris, of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, was 18 when he was sent to Christmas Island in the Pacific, where bombs were detonated in a series of infamous tests, and has suffered a range of ...

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 ...

The "cotton-candy" clouds of gas and dust in the Large Magellanic Cloud, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray) Quick facts ...