Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In May 1945, near the end of World War II, Germany surrendered to the Allies but Japan refused. To end the war quickly, President ...

TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. – Off the coast of Georgia, a massive bomb potentially sits in the water after having been flown out from Florida decades prior. According to NPR, the whole incident began in 1958 ...

HANDLE BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS. IT WAS 80 YEARS AGO TODAY, THE U.S. DROPPED THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB ON THE JAPANESE CITY OF HIROSHIMA. THREE DAYS LATER, A SECOND BOMB WAS DROPPED ON NAGASAKI. THEY ...

The Rulison test — conducted at a depth of 8,425 feet — was the deepest subterranean nuclear-bomb detonation conducted in U.S. history.

July 16 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1790, the U.S. Congress designated the District of Columbia as the permanent seat of the U.S. government. In 1935, the world's first parking meter was ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

The first reports were met with disbelief. A single bomb with the explosive force to level a city; a bomb, detonated with such intensity it burned as bright as — maybe, even brighter than — the sun.

A pivotal scene in the explosive hit biopic and Best Picture winner, "Oppenheimer," involves America's top scientists discussing whether or not to develop an even more potent nuclear weapon — the ...

Editor’s note: This essay is paired with a second essay that offers a contrasting perspective about J. Robert Oppenheimer. On August 6, 1945, the day the atomic bomb exploded above the city of ...