Los Alamos, New Mexico, became the secret hub of the Manhattan Project during World War II, leading to the creation of the ...
Why Did America Choose to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki? We look at the history and evidence of the devastating choice that ...
The recent magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula has sent shivers across Russia, Japan, and the United States, not merely because of its sheer force but because its energy release ...
When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic bomb, there are a few obvious choices. July 16, 1945, was the date of the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, and has been used by some as ...
Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This month marked the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, helping bring an end to World War II. Myra Mansfield shares an excerpt of her ...