Next time, it could be an instrument in the hands of an irrational regime, or rival nation bent on the destruction of American power.

A blast at the ‘96 Olympics, and the bomber slips away. Two more bombs. A photo of the suspect so grainy the FBI called him ...

Garret Graff’s “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky” and Iain MacGregor’s “The Hiroshima Men.” ...

A dawn ceremony is planned for Aug. 6, as Oak Ridge remembers the dropping of the first atomic bomb in 1945.

Opinion: 80 years later, there is no certainty another approach would have abruptly ended hostilities and spared substantial American lives.

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

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

Oppenheimer was first a brilliant scientist, then a war hero, then a political traitor, then a nobody, then a martyr, now a ...

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

Long before Hollywood, three brothers from Youghal were recording Irish life, creating animation and redefining what cameras ...

A Nagasaki cathedral has blessed the final piece to complete its restoration nearly 80 years after being destroyed by the second U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Japan: a reproduction of its lost bell ...