The lives of two atomic bombing survivors have become unexpectedly linked through the rescue of a life-size model of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima that was bound for the junkyard. When Hiroshi ...

The newspapers have done an adequate job of guessing about the principles of the atomic bomb and about the possibilities of atomic power in the future. The accompanying article, composed mainly of ...

How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic bomb? The truth is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have built a weapon like the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

A photo supposedly showing the "atomic shadow" of a human and a ladder that was created when the U.S. dropped atomic bombs above Japan at the end of World War II has been frequently shared online ...

The museum plans to display those photos in 2025 along with a model of the atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima, known as Little Boy, according to Jeremy Kinney, associate director of research and ...

"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...