As global concern over nuclear tensions periodically resurfaces, one of the world’s leading historians of nuclear weapons has ...

"If that atom bomb hits, fall flat and double up." That was the core of advice in a government booklet published 75 years ago – "Survival Under Atomic Attack." The publication, put out by the Atomic ...

The email sent to atom bomb officials by Brandon Williams highlights the managerial challenge faced by the former one-term ...

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.

The First Quebec Conference, 1943: (clockwise from top left) Mr Mackenzie King, Winston Churchill, Alexander Cambridge, Earl of Athlone, and President Roosevelt - Bettmann Manhattan, Mayson, Maud. One ...

Japanese men carry a victim of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki in this August 1945 file photo by Japanese photographer Yosuke Yamahata. via REUTERS Eighty years ago, in one of the most consequential ...

The front page of the Parkersburg News from Aug. 15, 1945. (Archive Image) Eighty years ago last week our country did something that had never been done before or since. They exploded an “atom bomb” ...

Cameron’s upcoming film, Ghosts of Hiroshima, will focus on the aftermath of the atomic bombs in Japan - Universal History Archive/Getty “This might be the most challenging film I ever make.” So says ...

The United States began developing the atom bomb in military effort called the Manhattan Project. The race to create this weapon kicked off after three chemists in Berlin, 1938, split a uranium atom ...