In August 1945, the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- the only recorded use of nuclear weapons ...
On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated a nuclear weapon so powerful that its shockwave traveled around the Earth ...
Editor’s note: If you’d like to pinpoint the instant when the world entered the nuclear age, 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on 16 July 1945, is an excellent choice. That was the moment when human ...
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 ...