Should the U.S. and Russia resume nuclear testing? The answer to that question must be a resounding “No.” Yet President ...
The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 wasn’t just powerful - it was built with a design as simple as a gun. Known as ...
On this 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, it is worth reflecting on the horrors of history ushered in with the ...
In the freezing darkness of February 1950, a US B-36 bomber on a training mission began to fail over Canada. With three ...
Caleb Dixon, Hashaam Sheikh, and Javi Guerr from Texas won the junior prize for their group documentary, “The Destroyer of ...
This week marks 80 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — killing an estimated 200,000 people. Historian Garrett Graff’s new book “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky” draws ...
LAS VEGAS — It wasn't going to be easy to track down the woman who came to be known as “Miss Atomic Bomb." All Robert Friedrichs had to go on was a stage name he found printed under an archival ...
After World War II, the Communist nation worked desperately to build and test its own bomb, terrified of what might happen if it failed. Indeed, a Russian nuclear scientist who attended the Bikini ...