Visual effects recreating atomic explosions were conducted in-camera without the use of digital trickery. Get the Space.com Newsletter Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches ...

Find out just how close the Nazis came to building atomic weapons during World War II, and view the only known diagram of a German nuclear bomb.

White Sands Missile Range was established in 1945, and was the site of the world’s first atomic bomb test.; The range has seen at least 42,000 missile and rocket launches over the past 75 years ...

Dropping atomic bombs out of the back of a spacecraft sounds crazy on environmental grounds, but Dyson calculated that “only” 0.1–1 Americans would contract cancer from this method. The project was ...

According to his team, an amount between 700–1,000 kg of HALEU is enough to build a bomb with a 15-kiloton yield—roughly as powerful as the Little Boy bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.

He tracked down the photographer and interviewed former showgirls who confirmed Miss Atomic Bomb’s stage name. But the woman’s real name still eluded him.

The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, effectively ended WWII, but took thousands of civilian lives. On August 6, 1945, the bomb was dropped on the city.