Editor’s note: This essay is paired with a second essay that offers a contrasting perspective about J. Robert Oppenheimer. On August 6, 1945, the day the atomic bomb exploded above the city of ...

In the freezing darkness of February 1950, a US B-36 bomber on a training mission began to fail over Canada. With three engines dead and ice dragging the massive aircraft down, Captain Harold Barry ...

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 ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...

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.

Hopefully these young minds will grasp onto some of these concepts and will go home and around the dinner table talk to their ...