Editor in chief Nancy Shute traces the history of nuclear weapons, from the first sustained nuclear reaction in 1942 to the renewed interest in explosive tests today.

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

Researchers at Korea's Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology have created a nuclear battery that could turn ...

To date, only the US has ever dropped nuclear bombs on a population — in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Still, the number of ...

Godzilla has had many epic moments with the atomic breath, but some versions are far more devastating than others.

Contact him via [email protected] It's almost 80 years since the first ever nuclear bomb was detonated, with the Trinity test taking place on 16 July 1945. The following month two atomic bombs ...

The Enola Gay notably became the first-ever aircraft to drop an atomic bomb amid war, when it released the U.S.-made explosive that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945.

Five months before the United States dropped atomic weapons on Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nighttime raid on March 9-10, 1945 was World War II's deadliest using conventional bombs.

References to the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan during World War II have been flagged for removal in Pentagon documents as the Department of Defense purges references ...

A chilling simulation models the destruction an atomic bomb would cause if it detonated ... the simulation tracks the physical and human toll across New York City and beyond.

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The Atomic Bomb Dome, which was the only structure left standing near to where the first atomic bomb used in war exploded on Aug. 6, 1945 in Hiroshima, seen on Dec. 9, 2024 The Atomic Bomb Dome ...