On May 24, 1957, Las Vegas News Bureau photographer Don English snapped a striking image of a model wearing a mushroom cloud swimsuit who was quickly immortalized as "Miss Atomic Bomb." This ...

As a bit of history, on page 32, Bourzac says, “In the 20th century, physicists and chemists settled on a basic picture of the atom. At the dawn of the 1900s, the electron had been discovered.

This article was originally published with the title “ A Completed Chapter in the History of the Atomic Theory ” in SA Supplements Vol. 42 No. 1080supp (September 1896), p. 17269 doi:10.1038 ...

The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making & Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb Garrett M. Graff. Avid Reader, $35 (624p) ISBN 978-1-6680-9239-2 ...

Dalton's own notebook shows that his atomic theory preceded his work on marsh gas, and his notes for a lecture delivered in 1810 give a history of his ideas which agrees with all the facts.1.

We owe a debt of gratitude to the "atomic veterans" of World War II who are eyewitnesses to history’s forgotten casualties of the nuclear age. NWS issues flood watch for Central Texas areas hit ...