The letter originally in German was later translated into English by theoretical physicist Herbert Jehle, with help from ...

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

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

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

It was a battle planned and fought in the shadows and unleashed with missiles and spycraft. The real winner of the conflict ...

How an atomic weapon is built, and what the recent Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iran may mean for the country’s nuclear ambitions.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Three intertwined time directions may underpin everything, turning space into mere “paint on the canvas” and pushing physics ...

We developed the atomic bomb under the stimulus of the fear that the Germans might be at it. We deliberated at length on the use of the bomb against Japan; indeed it was Colonel Stimson who initiated ...