Hydrogen bombs cause a bigger explosion, which means the shock waves, blast, heat and radiation all have larger reach than an atomic bomb, according to Edward Morse, a professor of nuclear engineering ...

Einstein’s genius enabled the atomic age, but his conscience rejected its darkest creation. This piece uncovers why he refused to join the Manhattan Project and the haunting moral warning he left ...

US bomber Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the same as those which dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, heading to bomb Osaka in 1945. United States Army Air Force August 2025 marked the 80th ...

In 1949, the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb years ahead of Western expectations. The achievement resulted from an intense domestic scientific effort supported by intelligence gathered ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/how-press-reported-atomic-bomb/ The New York Times proudly touted its exclusive coverage of the atomic bomb ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

On Aug. 9, 1945, 6-year-old Chiyoko Motomura was playing on a veranda at her family’s Nagasaki, Japan, home. Her mother, aunt and grandfather were weeding the rice fields while her grandmother was ...

IRAN’s top diplomat claimed today that enemies “fear” its atomic bomb, while refusing to stop the nuclear program which the ...

The New START treaty ended after U.S. President Donald Trump did not follow up on a Russian proposal to extend warhead limits in the agreement for one year.

Hiroshima, on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in a ceremony of remembrance, but it was an event also aimed, psychologically, at preventing ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — President Donald Trump’s comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the ...

TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (WSAV) – Tybee Island is introducing a new cocktail bar with a nod to the beach’s unique history. In 1958, a thermal nuclear weapon was accidentally dropped off the coast of Tybee ...