The "A" stands for "atomic," and was quickly adopted as a name for the earliest nuclear weapons. The A-Bomb wasn't just tested by the U.S., as it was infamously used twice against an enemy ...

Sure, it’s no "Barbie," but Christopher Nolan’s "Oppenheimer" is the most highly anticipated film about nuclear weapons ... What to know about atomic bomb physicist's life, career, death ...

How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic bomb? The truth is that National ... the physicist Werner Heisenberg had calculated that nuclear fission chain reactions might be possible.

On July 16, 1945, the first nuclear explosion occurred in a test located near Los Alamos, New Mexico. The atomic bomb test was code named "Trinity" and was a success. Ashlyn Messier is an ...

Nuclear war remains unlikely but ... according to the CDC. A 1-megaton bomb (that's about 80 times larger than the "Little Boy" atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan) could temporarily blind ...

Atomic bombs work via a process called nuclear fission that involves atom splitting. Shortly after scientists discovered nuclear fission, the possibility of a bomb was quickly realized.

While judging that it was feasible, they decided to focus their nuclear research program on the development of a reactor.) The U.S. effort to build the atomic bomb was a collaboration with ...

Tanaka said the average age of atomic bomb survivors is now 85, and that he hoped the next generation would find ways to ...

The development of a nuclear bomb that would be 24 times more ... forces while "increasing reliance on nuclear weapons." The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was about a 15-kiloton bomb.

Robert Oppenheimer’s moonshot project to build an atomic bomb in a top-secret lab in the New Mexico desert—and his lifelong qualms about the nuclear age he ushered in. Did the legendary ...

The organization, founded in 1956, has battled for nearly 70 years to eliminate nuclear weapons globally ... three days after it detonated the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima.