Nuclear weapons can produce some of the most devastating destruction of any device ever created by humankind -- so what ...

To date, only the US has ever dropped nuclear bombs on a population — in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Still, the number of ...

When atomic bombs struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 ... is the term used in Japan for those who survived the atomic bomb explosion. After their deaths, names are inscribed on memorials ...

On July 16, 1945, the US conducted the world's first test of a nuclear weapon. Less than a month later, two bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing about the ...

NAGASAKI--For decades, atomic bombing survivor Nobuko ... symptoms of what is believed to be atomic bomb disease four years after the explosion. Oka had to fight not just the pain of radiation ...

Editor in chief Nancy Shute traces the history of nuclear weapons, from the first sustained nuclear reaction in 1942 to the renewed interest in explosive tests today.

its power will be 100 times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A nuclear explosion generates a significant amount of energy through a process known as nuclear fission.

killing hundreds of thousands of people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Social media posts about so-called "Barbenheimer" linked the film's main character Barbie to atomic bomb-related imagery.

HIROSHIMA--Teruko Yahata was eight when she saw a blueish-white light envelop the sky over her home city of Hiroshima one summer morning, moments before the first atomic bomb explosion knocked her ...