The first atomic bomb was tested that morning, the result of the U.S. Manhattan Project to develop the ultimate weapon. Just weeks later the U.S. would drop atomic bombs on Japan, destroying the ...

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

It was 80 years ago on July 16 that a mysterious flash of light and a massive explosion rumbled in the New Mexico desert.

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 ...

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