A strange scarlet rock was created during the world's first nuclear explosion in 1945, and scientists have now uncovered what ...

That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire above a ...

Throughout Sumiteru Taniguchi's life, the scars he bore were a living testament to the international community about the ...

An investigative document written by the Allied occupation headquarters in Japan in 1948 revealed that 12 U.S. prisoners of ...

Samples of "trinitite" created during the world’s first nuclear bomb test in 1945 contain unique crystals never seen before.

The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to pinpoint the exact moment the world changes. But when the New Mexico dawn ...

Tests in the 1950s were part of war effort but questions remain to this day.

Hayawo Kiyama, now an 89-year-old Los Osos resident, was 8 and fishing with his widowed aunt on the morning of Aug. 9, 1945, when they witnessed the bombing of Nagasaki. He later became a daito ryu ...

Had the attack on the Twin Towers involved a 20-megaton nuclear bomb, blast waves would have carried through the entire underground subway system. Up to fifteen miles from ground zero flying debris, ...