Seventy years ago, on September 17, 1955, a modified Convair B-36 departed Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. Legendary U.S.

The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima is believed, by some estimates, to have killed as many as 146,000 people, once injuries, ...

Christopher Nolan’s biographical film Oppenheimer earned nearly one billion dollars at the box office, portraying the "father ...

While a child in wartime Vietnam, Anh Duong vowed to one day help the soldiers who saved her. She and her Navy team helped ...

On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was detonated near Socorro, New Mexico-and 80 years later, we're still feeling the ...

Albert Einstein might be the daddy of all eggheads. But as his famous theory of special relativity turns 120, we tip our hats ...

Take an in-depth look at how the atomic bomb "Little Boy" worked, the first nuclear weapon ever used in warfare. Dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, the bomb marked the beginning of the ...

The "Fat Man" atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945, remains one of the most significant and terrifying ...

The paper argues that the third principle of thermodynamics follows from the second principle, rather than being a separate or independent concept. Professor José María Martín-Olalla of the University ...

Nuclear experts say the president’s rejection of the restrictive deal forced him to neutralize an Iranian threat of his own ...