The first atomic bomb was tested 80 years ago at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. However, most of us are not familiar with the Trinity Site simulation explosion weeks earlier on May 7, 1945. The ...

The First Quebec Conference, 1943: (clockwise from top left) Mr Mackenzie King, Winston Churchill, Alexander Cambridge, Earl of Athlone, and President Roosevelt - Bettmann Manhattan, Mayson, Maud. One ...

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. “I’m not sure if it was the effect of the atomic bomb, but I have always had a weak body, and when I was born, the ...

The only man to have survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs dies at 93. TOKYO, Jan. 6, 2010 -- The only person officially recognized as having been twice in the bull's eye of atomic bombs in ...

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...

Neutron, and Dirty Bombs. Know about the design, massive yield, and devastating impact of each nuclear weapon type.