Next month it will have been 80 years since the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by nuclear attacks. More than 200,000 people – mostly citizens – would die by the year's end ...

Hiroshima, on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in a ceremony of remembrance, but it was an event also aimed, psychologically, at preventing ...

Editor’s Note: This article contains potentially triggering material, including discussions of war, health effects of atomic bombs, child death and more. In August 1945, the United States dropped ...

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...

Oct. 1 (UPI) --Chinese military researchers recently reported that multiple nuclear strikes on a single target will produce greater damage than a single blast from a larger warhead to destroy hard ...

The U.S. military joined Israel’s bombing campaign against Iran on June 21, targeting nuclear sites at Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan with bunker-buster bombs and cruise missiles. It remains unclear ...

Nuclear bomb effects computer in pocket. Also issued online. NASM copy: Circular computer lacking. MSRL copy "Changes as of Feb. 1964" inserted. 1. General principles of nuclear explosions -- 2.

The use of atomic bombs on Japan is often justified by the potential loss of Allied lives in a ground invasion and as retribution for Japanese war atrocities. The atomic blasts and subsequent ...

The Open University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. I’m not sure if it was the effect of the atomic bomb, but I have always had a weak body, and when I was born, the ...