In 1949, the cold war became a nuclear arms race when the Soviets detonated an atomic bomb. United States military and ...

U2 are revisiting 'How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" on the outtakes collection 'How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb,' and ...

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. AP/Wide World Photos In 1932, James Chadwick discovered the neutron, a small atomic particle with mass but no charge.

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.

On July 16, 1945, the U.S. conducted the world's first nuclear bomb test in the New Mexico desert as part of the Manhattan Project, which led to the detonations of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and ...

For decades, Americans have been able to keep a comfortable distance from the disturbing visuals captured after the dropping ...

Learn more here. In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a chain reaction—a crucial step toward proving that it would be possible to make an atomic bomb. The scientists achieved this sustained ...

The Atomic Bomb Dome is now part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, but at one time the structure stood in the middle of a thriving commercial and residential area that was home to 400 or so ...

The story of the atomic bomb. Told through the scientists and spies who changed history. The race to beat the Nazis and stolen secrets. Show more The story of the atomic bomb. Told through the ...

Robert Oppenheimer had a leading role in developing the atomic bomb, changing the course of World War II Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan's sweeping new biographical thriller about the "father of ...

Whether it was the threat of nuclear war replete with atomic bombs wiping out civilization or worry about nuclear power, the “fallout” of all things nuclear has been at the center of films for ...

As such, parts of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean, roughly halfway between Papua New Guinea and Hawaii ... waste since some of the first atomic bomb tests some 80 years ago.