The Tsar Bomba's explosion was unparalleled in power. With a 50 megaton capacity, this nuclear test was estimated to be 3,800 ...

In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the ...

The hydrogen bomb, unlike the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima, generates energy through fusion by fusing isotopes of hydrogen, ...

Gelett Burgess’ 1895 poem “Purple Cow” allows “I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one, But I can tell you, anyhow, ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE — Archbishop John C. Wester, clad in black and flanked by two other New Mexico ...

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.

Half a world apart, the Tri-Cities in Washington and Nagasaki in Japan are linked forever by the birth of the Atomic Age. In the community that became the Tri-Cities, workers raced during World War II ...

The only man to have survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs dies at 93. TOKYO, Jan. 6, 2010 -- The only person officially recognized as having been twice in the bull's eye of atomic bombs in ...

Tri-Cities workers produced plutonium that powered the last atomic bomb 80 years ago. Relief in Tri-Cities that war ended without further lives lost; immense suffering in Japan Peace ceremonies in ...