On August 6, 1945, the atomic mission against Hiroshima began. The primary strike aircraft was the B-29 Enola Gay, piloted by ...
When Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai erupted, it unleashed the most powerful volcanic blast recorded in the modern era since ...
HIROSHIMA (Reuters) - Teruko Yahata was eight when she saw a blueish-white light envelop the sky over her home city of Hiroshima one summer morning, moments before the first atomic bomb explosion ...
Newt Gingrich raised eyebrows with a social media post about using nuclear bombs to cut a new channel in the Strait of Hormuz ...
America’s last nuclear detonation was nothing special. Smaller than the bomb that killed 73,000 people in Nagasaki, it exploded 1,397 feet below the Nevada desert. It shook the ground, created a ...
Rising Military Tensions Between India and Pakistan The recent escalation of military tensions between India and Pakistan has ...
Ty Bannerman will read from and sign copies of “Nuclear Family: a memoir of the atomic west” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, as part of the Bad Mouth Reading Series at the q-Staff Theatre, 400 Broadway ...
A four-part Nat Geo documentary traces the explosion, cover-up and lasting legacy of the nuclear plant's destruction in ...
Whilst calculating the precise likelihood of nuclear war remains complicated and unpredictable, rising global tensions have heightened that danger. Although numerous countries are working together to ...
Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...