In 1941, HMS Victorious, a formidable British aircraft carrier, joined the mission to locate and attack the German battleship Bismarck and its escort, Prinz Eugen. With her Fairey Swordfish ...

It’s not hyperbole to suggest that there are two worlds – one before and one after the detonation of the atomic bomb. Interestingly ... The second drawing shows a mushroom with the note ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. On Aug. 9, 1945, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The bombings resulted in thousands of causalities in Japan.

Robert Oppenheimer sketched the first crude drawing of an atomic bomb. AI researchers can see themselves in the story of a small community of scientists who find that their work could shape the ...

Newly declassified documents reveal that Gen. Leslie Groves—director of the Manhattan Project, the top-secret operation that built the atomic bomb during World War II—misled Congress and the ...

Walter Pincus, a former Post reporter and columnist and author of “Blown to Hell: America’s Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders,” writes for the Cipher Brief. On May 31, 1945, six ...

The physicist and architect of the American atomic bomb was stripped of his security ... His father gave the young woman a Cézanne drawing. In the 1930s, like many political liberals, Oppenheimer ...

In 1951, Richard Garwin was 23, a junior physicist working summers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, home of the atomic bomb ... large foldout drawing of how to construct that bomb.

By Nicolas Rapold Witnesses to the Trinity test, the inaugural atomic bomb experiment in 1945 portrayed ... in its genuinely destabilizing Episode 8, drawing out the full uncanny horror of the ...