On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

An Iranian delegation visited Russian scientific institutes that produce dual-use technologies — components with potential ...

Many narrators continue to portray Oppenheimer as the father of the atomic bomb. But crediting him was part of a strategy to make nuclear weapons look like an unambiguous force of good—not of evil.

Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero -- And Nuclear Peril Todayis available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire ...

Long a taboo, Brussels opened the door to EU funding for nuclear power this month in a sign of the growing support atomic energy is enjoying within the bloc.This came after Rome opened the door to ...

The bomb (part 2): the atomic town Our podcast on science and technology. The second episode of our four-part series on the past, present and future of nuclear weapons ...

As we look toward 2025, the threat posed by nuclear weapons remains as potent as ever, with the potential for catastrophic destruction. The scale of destruction caused by atomic bombs is staggering.

The first atomic bomb explosion, code-named “Trinity,” occurred on this day in 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, in the United States.

On July 16, 1945, the Nuclear Age erupted into being, with the atomic bomb’s first test, code-named Trinity, in the desert of New Mexico.

A new study in JAMA shows how proximity to Coldwater Creek, where nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was improperly stored, affected cancer rates over the decades.

Long a taboo, Brussels opened the door to EU funding for nuclear power this month in a sign of the growing support atomic energy is enjoying within the bloc.

Iran bomb damage intel suggests two nuclear sites not ‘obliterated’ U.S. officials briefed on the evolving intelligence assessment from Operation Midnight Hammer caution that the claim of ...