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 ...

The nuclear threat is real: Our nuclear weapons are much more powerful than Oppenheimer's atomic bomb Of these, 100 were detonated above ground. A Navy meteorologist warned that the prevailing ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

all meant to convey the inhumanity of nuclear war. Hiroshi Harada, the museum's former director who is a "hibakusha," as the atomic bomb survivors are known, says the exhibits cannot possibly tell ...

Images: Bloomberg News/C-Span/Bettmann Archive Composite: Mark Kelly Iran keeps making substantial progress in its brisk walk to an atomic weapon ... intends to join the nuclear-weapons club.