Atomic bomb

The yield of the first atomic bomb far surpassed any of the scientist's expectations—as did the fallout.  

Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami pointed out that nuclear bombs are "clearly" against Islamic (or Sharia) law.

The atomic bomb was meant for Kokura, not Nagasaki.

Now more than ever, they fear the threat of nuclear war.

The bombs that exploded in the air above the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the first and last use of atomic weapons in human history.

Less than 10 days before the U.S. decided to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, international news outlets misinterpreted then-Japanese Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki's comment, according to an NSA document.

Experts believed the image depicted one of North Korea's first atomic bombs.

The work reflects "the duality of creation and destruction as well as the beauty and disaster that our civilization has created."

The U.S. said it will refuse to sign the U.N.-sanctioned Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

This year, the country has carried out 10 missile tests troubling neighboring countries.

John McAfee says attacks are "harbinger of near-future attacks that will be more devastating."

The untold story of the wartime dash to obtain Congo's uranium, crucial to the atomic bomb.

Will become first sitting U.S. president since World War II to visit the Japanese city hit by an atomic bomb.

U.S. officials say that the satellite, which caused an international outcry, is incapable of any useful function.

The United Nations Secretary General was speaking ahead of an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council.

China is expected to criticize Pyongyang in a collective U.N. statement, but how far will Beijing go?

Pyongyang has tested something, but it's unlikely to be a full-blown H-bomb.

Tens of thousands died instantly when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.

A 'Newsweek' article, published August 13, 1945, offers insight into the immediate American reaction to the bombing of Hiroshima.

As soon as the bombs were dropped, the men who invented them began searching their consciences.

One man's quest to find the families of the 12 American POWs who died on Aug. 6, 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

A Bonhams auction of science objects put items like an Apple-1 computer, a Manhattan Project viewing window and a letter by Charles Darwin on the block