The first atomic bomb is detonated near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. The successful test paved the way for the ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer became known as the Father of the Atomic Bomb after serving as scientific director of Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, America's secret nuclear weapons program in World ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — More than 50,000 people gathered at this city’s Peace Memorial Park on Thursday to remember the victims of the world’s first atomic bombing and hear a renewed appeal for world ...

The number of survivors of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dwindling 80 years later, but they are ...

The general public has long had a degree of wariness and uncertainty surrounding nuclear reactors, thanks largely to the fact that many associate nuclear energy with nuclear bombs. That's fair, thanks ...

Sometimes inventions save countless lives. Sometimes they end just as many. Sometimes, they do both. The United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare on Aug. 6, 1945. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Enola Gay at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.Talia Lakritz/Business Insider Enola Gay, a B-29 ...

North Korea’s interest in nuclear weapons was decades in the making—but its first earnest attempt during the 1990s was ...