Nuclear reactors and atomic bombs both rely on nuclear fission, but does that mean that a reactor could turn into an atomic ...

Eight decades after the Hiroshima atomic bombing, the event remains a defining moment. The bombings accelerated World War ...

On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

On August 6, 1945 — 81 years ago — the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the ...

At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the course of World War II and the history of Japan changed when the US military dropped the ...

More than 50,000 gathered at Peace Memorial Park to remember the victims of the world’s first atomic bombing and hear renewed ...

Eighty-one years ago on Thursday, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, reducing the city to ruins, killing ...

Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.

Enrico Fermi nearly discovers nuclear fission while bombarding uranium with neutrons. The sample was wrapped in aluminium foil, preventing him from detecting the splitting of the atom The world’s ...

Rapidly cooled Two microscope images of the metal sphere that contained the new alloy. (Courtesy: University of Florence/CC BY-SA 4.0) One of my favourite books about physics is The Second Kind of ...