Many narrators continue to portray Oppenheimer as the father of the atomic bomb. But crediting him was part of a strategy to ...

In 1947, Kix cereal ran a promotion for an "Atomic Bomb Ring" that contained radioactive polonium-210, one of the deadliest ...

The late Ray Gallagher of Chicago’s Gage Park neighborhood was an assistant flight engineer on the B-29 that dropped the bomb ...

Eighty years after the U.S. used the atomic bomb on Japan, debates on nuclear weapons remain fraught. In Los Alamos, the ...

The daughter of an Oak Ridge engineer seeks to understand her father's role in the Manhattan Project—and fills unknowns with ...

The White House has now fully embraced bomb-prone nuclear fuel technology. This should stop before an arms race, atomic ...

Over 35 attendees came to listen to North Central Texas College History Professor Charles Adams’ lecture on the making of the atomic bomb and its usage Wednesday, the first open-to-the-public lecture ...

On August 6, 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Twelve men were on that flight.

Alamogordo. The test marked a significant turning point in World War II that left impacts across New Mexico and around the world.

We must rid ourselves of nuclear weapons or lose life as we know it on this planet, the Hampton Roads Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons’s Rev. Julia Dorsey Loomis and Steve Baggarly write ...

July 16 marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated. The specter of nuclear annihilation has been with us ever ...