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.

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

Eight decades after the Hiroshima atomic bombing, the event remains a defining moment. The bombings accelerated World War ...

The claim that Britain’s nuclear weapons makes us safe – the myth that this government like every other before it continues ...

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

Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.

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 ...