The National Nuclear Security Administration said development for a bomb 24 times more powerful than the one dropped on ...

What happened on 6 August 1945? In the small hours of a warm summer day, the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay flew from a US base on Tinian over the Japanese mainland. In the hold was an experimental ...

After two planes collided, three hydrogen bombs hit a Spanish village, and one fell into the sea nearby. Two years later, ...

The lab designing the warhead says it is accelerating the timeline to respond ‘to a critical challenge and urgent need.’ ...

HIROSHIMA--The ruins of the facilities of the Imperial Japanese Army's logistics corps that were destroyed in the atomic bombing ... Hiroshima Castle during World War II. There are believed ...

A new US nuclear weapon 24 times more powerful than the one used on Hiroshima is being rush-produced because of an “urgent” and “critical” threat from rising global tensions, according to ...

One of the most important projects of the 20th century was also one of the most daring and destructive, and it reshaped the ...

The B61-13 bomb,which has a maximum yield of 360 kilotons, has been given an accelerated timeline for production by the ...

The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 in the final days of World War II, killing an estimated 214,000 people by the end of that year and leaving numerous ...

USI held its annual Shaw Biology lecture in Carter Hall. The guest speaker this year was Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer ...