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 ...

The arrest of Klaus Fuchs for espionage in 1950 was a news sensation. The renowned physicist had spent years at the very heart of Britain and the United States’ nuclear programmes. But unbeknown to ...

Many hope it will answer a question that has long divided Americans and the country’s understanding of its history: Who exactly was J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb?

That very act saved their lives. Only two atomic bombs have ever been dropped in the history of mankind, both by the United States in 1945 in the final stages of the second world war. The first ...

and ‘Miss Atomic Bomb’ has always been a symbol of that era’s colorful history,” added Joseph Kent, Deputy Director and Curator, of the Atomic Museum. “Thanks to Robert Friedrichs ...

From the official Manhattan District history, during the final year of the war ... was more efficient than Oak Ridge and that German bomb designs used methods more efficient than the U.S. "Little Boy" ...

I now live in Sydney, but I was born and brought up in Hiroshima. When the bomb exploded on the morning of August 6 1945, I was a 13-year-old schoolgirl. I lived 1.7 kilometres away from where the ...