Ogura can still remember that terrible morning in August, 80 years ago. Her older brother, who later died of cancer from ...

Cristina Alivio shares the harrowing testimony of Katsuko Kuwamoto, a six-year-old survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing in 1945. Kuwamoto's account reveals the unimaginable suffering, hunger, ...

The most powerful weapon in the US nuclear arsenal is the B83 nuclear bomb. Developed in the late 1970s and in use since 1983 ...

When the US warplane dropped a 4,400kg atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and 43 seconds later it detonated 600 metres above the city, ...

The U.S. scientists who tested the first atomic bomb on July 16, 1945, took the ultimate gamble of setting the atmosphere on ...

Everyone loves a bit of history—but some stories are just too strange, too unbelievable, or too downright ridiculous to make ...

The sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis is widely known as a shark story—but the truth is much more horrifying.

New Mexicans impacted by the Trinity Test are getting closer to receiving compensation after eight decades of health problems ...

WASHINGTON — The statue in the Jefferson Memorial is 19 feet tall, but it’s the words carved in stone around the bronze figure that are truly monumental. Such as these, from Jefferson’s Declaration of ...

Data from oceans, ice and the air all point to the same thing: rising invisible heat. What experiments are working, and what kinds of trials do we need to stop?

The quiet summer streets of Hiroshima are once again stirring with the uneasy winds of memory. With the approach of August ...

On this week’s “More To The Story,” Daniel Holz from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists discusses why the hands of the ...