On August 6, 1945, the atomic mission against Hiroshima began. The primary strike aircraft was the B-29 Enola Gay, piloted by ...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan police say a bomb ripped through a mosque in northern Kabul during Friday prayers, killing 12 worshippers. Spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz says the imam of the mosque was among ...
A massive explosion occurred at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake last Friday, December 12, not from a golf shot, but from the controlled detonation of World War II ordnance. “We’ve been ...
Manhattan Project scientists working on the Thin Man plutonium gun assembly. Two atomic bombs nicknamed Little Boy and Fat Man were detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, effectively ...
It’s a question that’s haunted scientists, governments, and anyone who’s ever watched a disaster movie set in Manhattan. Now, ...
Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...
HIROSHIMA -- "Do you want me and the family to pass on your story?"When the daughter of a survivor of the atomic bombing of ...