"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...

In October 1940, Ipswich became the victim of the first cluster bomb attack in history. It’s not known how many were killed. The British government recognised the fear these devices could cause ...

He famously admitted his "only remedy" on realising the inevitability of the nuclear bomb was to take sleeping ... Neils Bohr and Hans Geiger, co-inventor of the radiation counter.

Hitler's Atomic Bomb sheds light on the postwar criticism and subsequent rehabilitation of the German scientists, including the controversial legend of Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich von ...

To end it, the most powerful weapon the world had ever seen was about to be unleashed, a watershed in world history: the atomic bomb. The bomb’s colossal destructive power comes from the vast ...

Fukahori was only 14 when the U.S. dropped the bomb on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, killing tens of thousands of people, including his family. That came three days after the nuclear attack on ...

where they tested the first nuclear bomb. Dating to 1969, National Museum of Nuclear Science & History tracks nuclear developments from the earliest pioneers in the field to the latest ...