With tensions between the US and Iran reaching breaking point, fears of nuclear war are growing fast. We’ve taken a look at ...

How an atomic weapon is built, and what the recent Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iran may mean for the country’s nuclear ambitions.

The letter originally in German was later translated into English by theoretical physicist Herbert Jehle, with help from ...

E. Tammy Kim reviews “Korean Nuclear Diaspora,” by Yuko Takahashi, a new ethnography of Korean survivors of the atomic-bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War.

Japan’s Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui on Wednesday encouraged President Trump to visit the city to understand the impact of ...

English posed in the lobby for a photo with a life-sized cardboard cutout of "Miss Atomic Bomb." Friedrichs jokes it's his favorite of all the photos he's collected of her in 25 years.

I was standing at Trinity, ground zero, where the first atomic bomb exploded at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. Seismographs in Tucson detected the explosion from 280 miles away.

James Cameron explains how his upcoming atom bomb movie is different from Oppenheimer, calling Christopher Nolan's film "a ...

A pivotal letter from Albert Einstein, described as his "most thorough and direct statement" on his connection to the atomic bomb's development, is set for auction by Bonhams and is expected to ...

While a child in wartime Vietnam, Anh Duong vowed to one day help the soldiers who saved her. She and her Navy team helped ...

The US dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, killing about 140,000 people. A second bomb hit Nagasaki on Aug. 9, killing 70,000 more.