Atomic bomb

Inventor Michael Bourque's father was an atomic veteran who fought in the Korean War and participated in U.S. military nuclear weapons tests.

It has remained at 100 minutes to midnight since 2020, but this year's nuclear threats from Russia may have edged us even closer to the metaphorical doomsday.

Both events show the star releasing huge amounts of energy.

Nuclear weapons generate their huge explosive power through the splitting—or fission—of certain elements, such as uranium or plutonium.

The pig was supposedly locked inside a toilet on the Japanese ship "Sakawa" when Able was detonated. Yet, a day later, it was found swimming at the atoll.

A Russian strike on the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) would cause catastrophic consequences, an expert has assessed.

"They need to see, clearly and viscerally, just how universal and destructive a nuclear war would be," computer scientist Christopher Minson said.

Christopher Nolan is bringing the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer to life in the epic biopic, "Oppenheimer."

Alex Wellerstein, who created the tool, told Newsweek that the NUKEMAP site has experienced a dramatic increase in traffic since February.

Orban was giving his opinion on plans by the EU to ban Russian oil imports.

New Mexico environmental officials and watchdog groups worry that the federal government has understated the environmental liability of the Los Alamos facility.

World War II historians still hotly contest president Harry S. Truman's decision to drop atomic weapons on civilian populations.

The elderly plaintiffs who fell ill after exposure to radioactive rain will now be given the same medical benefits as other survivors of the atomic blast.

Bestselling author Greg Mitchell debates Hudson Institute senior fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs.

It has been 75 years since any nation used a nuclear weapon during wartime.

Polling showing more and more of the U.S. population disapproving of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atomic bomb have become the basis for a generational narrative that obscures the long history of debate around the necessity of the carnage.

The vast majority of the Japanese city's hospitals were also rendered non-functioning by the nuclear bomb.

"All those people that were going to be killed? I was praying for them," Lawrence Johnston said at the time.

My grandfather, Dr. Ken Takeuchi, was the director of the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital. On August 4, 1945, he had talked to staff and encouraged them to arrive at work earlier. At 8.15am on August 6, when the atomic bomb hit, many staff were inside the hospital—his pep talk had saved lives.

Some thought A-bomb survivors "had the blood of the devil," according to one Hiroshima resident.

75 years ago, the world's first nuclear bomb was dropped. How did it change the nature of conflict, how do we now view the use of nuclear weapons and what will determine their use in the future?

On one occasion, asked how long it took him to decide to use the new device, he simply snapped his fingers.

The U.S. became the first, and to this day only, nation in the world to use a nuclear weapon against a foreign adversary on August 6, 1945.

"People were fascinated by the clouds, by this idea of unlocking secrets of atom."

An investigation by The Los Angeles Times and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism found the dome is barely holding it together as it is. Rising sea levels could tip it over the edge.

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.