On 16 July 1945 the US detonated the world’s first nuclear bomb in the New Mexico desert. The test was final, terrible proof that nuclear energy could be weaponised, and prompted Robert ...

As a warning about how close we are to atomic holocaust, the Doomsday Clock stands at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been since its invention in 1947. After creating the world's first ...

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 ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. This book explores the American use of atomic bombs, and the role these weapons ...

Even before the Soviet Union tested its first atomic weapon in 1949, American security officials began secret studies of the threat from a smuggled bomb. This early assessment by the Central ...

Tucker Carlson has come under fire for making bizarre claims about the origins of nuclear technology, suggesting that the ...

“Oppenheimer” finally premiered Friday in the nation where two cities were obliterated 79 years ago by the nuclear weapons invented by ... father of the atomic bomb” for leading the ...