I was standing at Trinity, ground zero, where the first atomic bomb exploded at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. Seismographs in Tucson detected the explosion from 280 miles away. The test bomb ...

The mushroom cloud had become the defining visual symbol of the atomic bomb, a striking and dramatic ... circulated the world, drawing millions to the Nevada desert. Although the subject of ...

It was a mission cloaked in silence, aimed at a location never meant to be hit. When the bomb dropped, the shockwaves rippled far beyond the blast zone. Five Supreme Court justices sit out case in ...

Samuel Hawley is the author of “The Imjin War” and the forthcoming “Daikon.” It was born on May 18, 1945, at the assembly plant of the Glenn L. Martin Company outside Omaha. Designation ...

The shock waves, blast, heat, and radiation from a hydrogen bomb have a larger reach than those from an atomic bomb. A hydrogen bomb could wipe out entire cities and kill hundreds to thousands of ...

Courtesy of Barbara Kent The flakes were fallout from the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, the world’s first atomic bomb detonation. It took place at 5:29 a.m. local time atop a hundred-foot ...

Late fashion editor Diana Vreeland declared it: “The most important thing since the discovery of the atomic bomb." From its inception in the 1940s to its modern iterations, the bikini's journey ...

Taiwan's foreign ministry today expressed regret over Nagasaki's decision not to invite Taiwan to join an upcoming memorial to mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the Japanese city at ...

Part of a North Yorkshire village has been cordoned off after a suspected World War Two bomb was uncovered. A 100m (328ft) safety cordon has been put in place around an address on Main Street ...

Tanaka was a one-year-old child when the atomic bomb was dropped. During the discussion, Tanaka said 80 years have passed since the atomic bombings but there are still people who are only now ...