The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 wasn’t just powerful - it was built with a design as simple as a gun. Known as “Little Boy,” the weapon worked by firing one piece of uranium into another ...

LAS VEGAS — It wasn't going to be easy to track down the woman who came to be known as “Miss Atomic Bomb." All Robert Friedrichs had to go on was a stage name he found printed under an archival ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 149. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, shocked the world. It marked the dangerous new dawn of nuclear ...

Eighty years ago this week, the world passed into a terrifying new age. In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, mushroom clouds announced that humans not only could slaughter each other in staggering ...

Atomic bomb mushroom clouds over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right), August 1945, Japan. Credit - Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group—Getty Images Most of the survivors were children ...

This image provided by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority shows Anna Lee Mahoney posing for a photo in Las Vegas, Nev., May 24, 1957. Mahoney, a showgirl at now-shuttered Sands Hotel, was ...

On this 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, it is worth reflecting on the horrors of history ushered in with the nuclear age.

Should the U.S. and Russia resume nuclear testing? The answer to that question must be a resounding “No.” Yet President ...

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.

Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the United States dropping the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The bombings ...

After World War II, the Communist nation worked desperately to build and test its own bomb, terrified of what might happen if it failed. Indeed, a Russian nuclear scientist who attended the Bikini ...