It was 12 September 1933. A little under 12 years later, the US dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima, killing an estimated 135,000 people. The path from Szilard’s idea to its deadly realisation is ...

According to several of the sources, German forces placed many concentration camp prisoners at the test site as human guinea ...

To end it, the most powerful weapon the world had ever seen was about to be unleashed, a watershed in world history: the atomic bomb. The bomb’s colossal destructive power comes from the vast ...

Gustav Hertz invented gaseous thermal diffusion enrichment ... used methods more efficient than the U.S. "Little Boy" atomic bomb, so Germany would have needed much less power than Oak Ridge.

Harriet Alida Lye opens “Let It Destroy You,” her sophomore novel, with a confidently dramatic flourish. At 9:07 p.m. on August 12, 1945 a scientist waits in a holding cell. As night encroaches, he ...

She doesn't remember the actual blast from an atomic bomb. Sixty years ago, on March 11, 1958, an Air Force bomber dropped a nuclear weapon on a farm in the rural Mars Bluff community outside ...