In 1941, HMS Victorious, a formidable British aircraft carrier, joined the mission to locate and attack the German battleship Bismarck and its escort, Prinz Eugen. With her Fairey Swordfish ...

In 1951, Richard Garwin was 23, a junior physicist working summers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, home of the atomic bomb that had decimated Hiroshima six years before.

The Secretary of Energy on Friday nullified a 1954 decision to revoke the security clearance of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a top government scientist who led the making of the atomic bomb in World War ...

It’s not hyperbole to suggest that there are two worlds – one before and one after the detonation of the atomic bomb. Interestingly, there are two Southern Indiana connections to J. Robert ...

Nuclear experts demanded limits on the atomic bomb. AI developers should follow that example. ... 1945–1947, the historian Alice Kimball Smith, drawing on archival material and interviews, ...

The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, effectively ended WWII, but took thousands of civilian lives. On August 6, 1945, the bomb was dropped on the city.

Without the atomic bombs, the end of World War II, as they saw it, might still be years away. When the war came to its sudden and unexpected end, in 1945, the U.S.

The atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II. A second bomb was dropped in Nagasaki three days later. The bombs forced the nation's surrender.

U2 are revisiting 'How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" on the outtakes collection 'How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb,' and starting work on a new album.

He tracked down the photographer and interviewed former showgirls who confirmed Miss Atomic Bomb’s stage name. But the woman’s real name still eluded him.

Christopher Nolan’s complex, vivid portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” is a brilliant achievement in formal and conceptual terms.

The definitive telling of that story is Richard Rhodes’ Pulitzer Prize–winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb, first released in 1986. The 800-page tome has become something of a sacred text ...