the US dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima, killing an estimated 135,000 people. The path from Szilard’s idea to its deadly realisation is one of the most remarkable chapters in the history of ...

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. AP/Wide World Photos In 1932, James Chadwick discovered the neutron, a small atomic particle with mass but no charge.

The Oppenheimer movie has inevitably ignited interest in one of the most contentious episodes of modern history - the birth ... Allied efforts to make the atomic bomb, the team also involved ...

The story of the atomic bomb. Told through the scientists and spies who changed history. The race to beat the Nazis and stolen secrets. Show more The story of the atomic bomb. Told through the ...

Survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki said receiving a Nobel Peace Prize has given them a fresh ...

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 ...

It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power ... We have spent two billion dollars on the greatest scientific gamble in history -- and won. But the greatest marvel is not the ...