Bombshell shows how the government tried to minimize the effects of radiation and prevent independent reporting through ...

Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major General Kenneth D. Nichols, continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality traits and qualifications, led to choosing ...

The 13-year-old victim, named Hatsue Kajiyama, died on August 6, 1945, when the first atomic bomb, Little Boy, was dropped on ...

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.

The first atomic bomb was tested 80 years ago at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. However, most of us are not familiar with the Trinity Site simulation explosion weeks earlier on May 7, 1945. The ...

A dawn ceremony is planned for Aug. 6, as Oak Ridge remembers the dropping of the first atomic bomb in 1945. Officials with the Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Oak Ridge are inviting the ...

The U.S. scientists who tested the first atomic bomb, July 16, 1945, took the ultimate gamble of setting the atmosphere on fire and destroying all life on Earth. Even after the renowned physicist Hans ...

We learn of his role during the tense early years of the Cold War. Complete invasion of Western Europe by the Soviets was at ...

The U.S. all-star football game in the atomic ruins of Nagasaki--and why it matters today The second atomic bomb blast over Nagasaki in August 1945 has become known as "the forgotten bomb." Less than ...