The printing press, the lightbulb, the internal combustion engine and the computer moved the world into a mostly better ...

Nuclear reactors and atomic bombs both rely on nuclear fission, but does that mean that a reactor could turn into an atomic ...

On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

Eighty-one years ago, the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and on Nagasaki on August 9, ...

When the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, temperatures near the fireball soared to several thousand degrees Celsius, instantly vaporising or melting concrete, steel, glass and ...

On August 6, 1945 — 81 years ago — the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the ...

The extreme conditions of atomic bomb explosions create “uncontrolled microexperiments” that, in Hiroshima, forged a never-before-seen metallic alloy ...

Sunday, August 9 marks 81 years since the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki during World War Two. The city will ...

One winter’s day in June 1956, Britain detonated the largest weapon ever exploded in Australia. The test, code-named Mosaic G2, was conducted at Western Australia’s remote Montebello Islands, site of ...

In this 13 September 1945, file photo, the Urakami Catholic Cathedral in Nagasaki, Japan, stands waste in the aftermath of ...

NAGASAKI, Japan (Kyodo) -- Nagasaki on Sunday warned nuclear powers and nations relying on nuclear deterrence of the ...