Not just anyone can wander into the crater of America’s most infamous volcano, but hiking tours led by the Mount St. Helens ...

On the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Atomic Age, with the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on ...

Nichols: “The most important military effect was that it required only two atomic bombs to end the war. The Planned invasion ...

Deep beneath the surface of World War II's chaos, the United States was developing a weapon unlike anything the world had ever seen—The Manhattan Project. Hidden across secret facilities in Los Alamos ...

The U.S. altered the course of history 80 years ago when it dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. It was an audacious move that ...

Sunday, Aug. 6, 1945, 8:15 am. A 12-year-old girl was walking to her seijinshiki ceremony, a traditional Japanese rite of ...

Because Nevada has 300 sunny days a year and the U.S. government owns 87% of our state’s sparsely populated state, yet in the ...

Next week marks 80 years since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Garrett Graff about his book "The Devil Reached Toward The Sky," which recounts the bomb's creation.

She was a former Richland council member and a nuclear engineer at a time when few women had that career at Hanford.

Israel's military targeted a tent for journalists in Gaza City late Sunday, killing seven people, including Anas al-Sharif, a reporter for Al Jazeera who drew millions of ...

Edward R. Tompkins was a brilliant and well-regarded science teacher from Winterset, Iowa, who had a habit of keeping in ...

Germany said it’s halting deliveries to Israel of military equipment that could be used in operations in the Gaza Strip, ...