In 1957, scientists detonated a nuclear bomb under the Nevada desert — and launched a steel manhole cover at unimaginable ...

Kiyoshi Tanimoto witnessed the destruction of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945.

On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...

Return to Fukushima' and 'Nuclear Is Not The Solution'—lay out the perils and ugly history of nuclear power.

Space-based nuclear weapons are a serious matter, and one that deserves the very highest level of national attention.

The Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is so large that it couldn't fit into the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's ...

Confusion on whether Iran truly needed only “two weeks to four weeks” to make a nuclear weapon, as President Donald Trump suggested on Monday, hangs over the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war on the ...

America 250: The history and impact of Los Alamos ...

By recreating a nuclear fireball, scientists uncovered unexpected chemistry that could change how radioactive fallout is understood.

It was supposed to be a routine exercise. Perhaps an odd phrase to use when describing the handling of nuclear weapons, but during the Vietnam War, it was standard procedure to regularly load and ...