How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic bomb? The truth is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have built a weapon like the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

A Japanese man who lived through the American atomic bombing of Nagasaki has accepted this year’s Nobel Peace Prize on behalf ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

Iran is "dramatically" accelerating its enrichment of uranium to up to 60% purity, close to the roughly 90% level that is ...

A Google street view picture with a warning that the building is not earthquake safe The Japanese city of Hiroshima plans to knock down two buildings that survived the 1945 atomic bomb - but some ...

It is 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August, leading to the end of World War Two. The article contains graphic images and ...

Terumi Tanaka (C), a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, and a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, is pictured at Tokyo's Haneda ...