After the first atomic bomb test in 1945, military engineers imagined tanks that could survive nuclear war. The U.S. TV-8 was ...

After world war two, and the grand enterence of the atomic weapons used in japan, the world realised that warfare would never be the same. These new powerful bombs would allow conventional forces to ...

Introduction -- Building the bomb -- Controlling the bomb -- Racing with the bomb -- Why states want nuclear weapons--and why they don't -- Today's nuclear world -- The new U.S. policy -- The good ...

A new study analyzing historical photographs taken by the Palomar Observatory between 1949 and 1957 has detected several mysterious bright spots in the sky. These transient objects, captured on film ...

Foreword: Postwar America's nuclear paradox / by Paul S. Sutter -- Introduction: Nature and the nuclear consensus in postwar America -- Part 1. Frst reactions. Report on the Trinity Test, 1945 / ...

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.

A mother and child in Hiroshima a few months after the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945.Credit...Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock Supported by By ...

In Japan and South Korea there is deepening concern over the reliability of long-time American security guarantees – whether the U.S. will come to their aid in the event of a war. This has been ...