More Americans are now eligible for compensation for health problems linked to radiation exposure from the atomic weapons ...

Introducing “The Bomb”, our new four-part podcast series on the past, present and future of America’s nuclear stockpile ...

Shortly after scientists discovered nuclear fission, the possibility of a bomb was quickly realized. Albert Einstein didn't make the first atomic bombs, but his famous equation explains how they work.

THE ATOM: The Formula As Before; THE ATOM: The Formula As Before. 4 minute read. TIME. February 22, 1960 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... Well aware that France was about to explode an atomic bomb, ...

The A-Bomb wasn't just tested by the U.S., as it was infamously used twice against an enemy combatant — the only times to date that nuclear weapons have been used in war — when it was dropped ...

Let's start with the nuclear bomb, the other star of "Oppenheimer." Also called the atom bomb, or fission bomb, these devices use nuclear fission to cause a tremendous explosion.

Little Boy, the nuclear bomb that U.S. forces dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, leveled a two-mile radius of the city, killing an estimated 80,000 people.

After 52 months of studying atom-bomb damage to buildings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense summed up their findings for the benefit of U.S ...

The 72nd Test and Evaluation Squadron test-loads an unarmed B61-12 bomb, which can be outfitted with a nuclear warhead, on a B-2 Spirit bomber on June 13, 2022. (Airman 1st Class Devan Halstead/U ...