Traditional hydrogen bombs work through nuclear fusion, a process where atomic nuclei combine under intense pressure to ...

The way a nuclear reactor works is by arranging uranium in just the right positions to encourage neutrons ... becoming the nation’s first national lab—Argonne National Laboratory. In order to build an ...

How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic bomb? The truth is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have built a weapon like the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group formed by Manhattan Project scientists at the University of Chicago who helped build the atomic bomb but protested using it ...

On August 1, 1950, the "decision was made to send the 9th Bomb Wing to Guam as an atomic task force immediately." Ten B-29s, loaded with unarmed atomic bombs, set out for the Pacific. On August 5 ...

I now live in Sydney, but I was born and brought up in Hiroshima. When the bomb exploded on the morning of August 6 1945, I was a 13-year-old schoolgirl. I lived 1.7 kilometres away from where the ...

documentWW2: Countdown to Hiroshima: The bomb that changed the world A timeline of the events in the days and hours before the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. WW2: How close did D ...

It had to be burned. “This is essentially a bomb,” Kenneth R. Cooper, special agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Los Angeles field office ...