The Tsar Bomba's explosion was unparalleled in power. With a 50 megaton capacity, this nuclear test was estimated to be 3,800 ...

Stimson's essay concluded: "With the release of atomic energy, man's ability to destroy himself is very nearly complete. The ...

Gelett Burgess’ 1895 poem “Purple Cow” allows “I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one, But I can tell you, anyhow, ...

The hydrogen bomb, unlike the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima, generates energy through fusion by fusing isotopes of hydrogen, ...

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 ...

This oral history is adapted from Garrett M. Graff’s book “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb,” which published on Tuesday. Eighty years ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the ...