In the 1950s, there were so many nuclear bomb explosions above ground that it transformed the chemical make-up of the atmosphere – altering the carbon composition of life on Earth ever since ...

“He is the father” of the atom bomb, says Beser, who is the grandson of the only U.S. serviceman aboard both planes that carried the atomic bombs to Japan. Beser uses his storytelling to ...

Monstrous as it is, the atomic bomb is but a part of a much vaster, more important concern, that of the atom itself. To confine the problem to the atomic bomb is unfortunate both for the ...

Nuclear science is on the verge of developing a “third-generation weapon as radically different from the H-bomb as the H-bomb ... Murray, former member of the Atomic Energy Commission and ...

Historian Robert Friedrichs became obsessed with uncovering the true identity of Miss Atomic Bomb, the showgirl in a 1957 ...

Robert Oppenheimer, often credited as the father of the atomic bomb, said he didn't have ... The story of Oppenheimer and the development of the atom bomb is detailed in "Oppenheimer," a ...