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 ...

In a race against time and the enemy, J. Robert Oppenheimer helped lead the U.S. effort to build the atomic bomb. But he was almost bounced from the Manhattan Project entirely—why? J.

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 ...

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 ...

World’s first atomic bomb: J. Robert Oppenheimer was born in New York in 1904. He was the son of first-generation Jewish immigrants who came to America from Germany. By the age of 9, he had read ...

New Delhi: A major revolution in the arms race came when America invented the atomic bomb. The devastation caused by this weapon in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan shocked the entire world ...

An atomic bomb unleashes immense heat, pressure, and radiation—but could anything really survive such devastation? From cockroaches and deep-earth bacteria to specially designed military bunkers ...

To clarify, this is not a thermonuclear bomb (which uses nuclear fusion). Traditional hydrogen bombs work through nuclear fusion, a process where atomic nuclei combine under intense pressure to ...

With the mushroom cloud becoming a defining symbol of the atomic bomb, Mahoney was transformed into “Miss Atomic Bomb” and cemented Las Vegas as the “cultural epicenter of the Atomic Age.” ...

We finally know the true identity of the woman behind the iconic “Miss Atomic Bomb” photo. After 25 years of investigation, the Atomic Museum said in a news release that founding museum member ...

Robert Oppenheimer’s moonshot project to build an atomic bomb in a top-secret lab in the New Mexico desert—and his lifelong qualms about the nuclear age he ushered in. Did the legendary ...

Shigemi Fukahori, a Japanese Catholic who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945 and who was an advocate for peace late in his life, died on Friday, Jan. 3, at age 93. Fukahori died at ...