The printing press, the lightbulb, the internal combustion engine and the computer moved the world into a mostly better ...

Nuclear reactors and atomic bombs both rely on nuclear fission, but does that mean that a reactor could turn into an atomic ...

On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

On August 6, 1945 — 81 years ago — the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the ...

Eighty-one years ago, the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and on Nagasaki on August 9, ...

When the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, temperatures near the fireball soared to several thousand degrees Celsius, instantly vaporising or melting concrete, steel, glass and ...

The United States carried out the Potsdam Declaration’s threat of “prompt and utter destruction” on August 6 when a B-29 ...

The devastating blast vaporized buildings, metal, glass, soil and water. When the substances cooled and condensed, the process created spherical glassy grains—and some of them seem to contain a previo ...

The extreme conditions of atomic bomb explosions create “uncontrolled microexperiments” that, in Hiroshima, forged a never-before-seen metallic alloy ...

Sunday, August 9 marks 81 years since the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki during World War Two. The city will ...

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In this 13 September 1945, file photo, the Urakami Catholic Cathedral in Nagasaki, Japan, stands waste in the aftermath of ...