The atomic bombings ... happen after the atomic bomb was invented is that we end up in a world where multiple countries have nuclear weapons that could be delivered very quickly,” Wellerstein ...

The very least we can conclude is that our twenty-thousandth bomb, useful as it may be in filling the vast munitions ... will have a much higher military relevance than supremacy in the atomic ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. On Aug. 9, 1945, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The bombings resulted in thousands of causalities in Japan.

We owe a debt of gratitude to the "atomic veterans" of World War II who are eyewitnesses to history’s forgotten casualties of ...

After the first atomic bomb explosion (seen here from 10,000 yards away, in a time series from .006 seconds to .081 seconds after detonation), Oppenheimer recalled, "a few people laughed ...

Richard Garwin drew up the plans for the hydrogen bomb and spent seven decades advising presidents on scientific matters ...

By Nicolas Rapold Witnesses to the Trinity test, the inaugural atomic bomb experiment in 1945 portrayed ... or the doomsday finale to a story that has gone very, very wrong. Stanley Kubrick ...