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 ...

Einstein never worked directly on developing the world’s first atomic bomb for the United States, but its shadow loomed over ...

A letter from renowned physicist Albert Einstein outlining his own role in the development of the atomic bomb and his ...

A fiery letter written by Albert Einstein in 1954 is going to auction. The letter details Einstein's thoughts on his part in developing atomic weapons, and hails Mahatma Gandhi as a political genius.

Einstein's most thorough statement on his involvement with the atomic bomb, expected to fetch between $100,000 and $150,000 ...