In the summer of 1945, atomic bombs struck the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Within seconds, the explosions ...

When an atomic bomb detonates, it produces a unique chemical environment that’s nearly impossible to mimic in a lab—and amid its destruction, the explosion can create something completely new. One ...

The extreme conditions of atomic bomb explosions create “uncontrolled microexperiments” that, in Hiroshima, forged a ...

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima created a completely new material never before seen on Earth, scientists have discovered.

On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

Before the Trinity Test in July 1945, some of the world's leading physicists considered an unsettling possibility: could the ...

Few names are as closely linked with the atomic bomb as Albert Einstein's. Mention nuclear weapons and, sooner or later, someone will bring up his famous equation, E = mc².

An investigative document written by the Allied occupation headquarters in Japan in 1948 revealed that 12 U.S. prisoners of ...

Eric S. Singer is a cultural historian and author of “Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb,” a young readers edition of Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major General Kenneth D. Nichols, continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably ...

Although the deaths of foreign victims in the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945 have long been documented, a museum in ...