In this except from the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we hear from the people at the historic first test of the atomic ...

This was Trinity — the world’s first nuclear explosion, marking the moment humankind crossed into the atomic age.Part of The Manhattan Project led by J Robert Oppenheimer, Trinity was a codename ...

After the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two of Japan's largest cities, on August 6 and 9, 1945 ...

Eighty years after the U.S. used the atomic bomb on Japan, debates on nuclear weapons remain fraught. In Los Alamos, the ...

A few days later, on August 9, 1945, Bockscar flew over Nagasaki and dropped another atom bomb, Fat Man. The devastation killed thousands more and destroyed a substantial part of the city. These ...

In 1946, the US organized a football game featuring a pro fullback and a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback in the ruins of ...

Opinion The lonely, 80-year voyage of the Enola Gay The plane that dropped the atomic bomb rolled off the assembly line in 1945 and hasn’t rested since.

Hiroshima City has begun its annual effort to find relatives of hundreds of 1945 atomic bombing victims whose remains have been identified but not yet claimed.

Japan's Emperor Naruhito has paid respects to atomic bombing victims in Hiroshima as the city marks the 80th anniversary of the tragedy later this year.

However, there is a key difference between atomic weapons and thermonuclear weapons, such as the H-Bomb, because the latter uses nuclear fusion in addition to fission reactions.

The following year, Hiroshima hosted the World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, where, for the first time, “relief for hibakusha was added to the agenda of the anti-nuclear bomb ...

International researchers warn that the planet Venus is concealing at least three city-killer asteroids that could strike Earth in weeks without warning.