A pivotal scene in the explosive hit biopic and Best Picture winner, "Oppenheimer," involves America's top scientists ...

In 1958, a U.S. B-47 fighter jet accidentally dropped an atomic bomb over South Carolina, but fortunately, the nuclear ...

also known as A-bomb (atomic bomb), works on the process of nuclear fission to produce energy after the explosion. In this process, the nucleus of an atom is split into smaller parts, which ...

One of hundreds of documents assessing possible ... C.I.A.'s view that while there was a serious threat from a Soviet atom bomb detonation in an American city -- or a biological or nerve gas ...

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo ... a new element at all but might have actually split the uranium atom in two -- at that point a barely imaginable event. Before they could ...

“And the problem with a hydrogen car, if something goes wrong, it’s like the atom bomb went off,” he said. “You’re not recognizable. They'll say, ‘We thought it was Marjorie Taylor ...

Around four hundred young children were here with their ... We still cannot be sure. Dropping the atom bomb changed the world for ever and nobody thought about the consequences harder than its ...

It was 12 September 1933. A little under 12 years later, the US dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima, killing an estimated 135,000 people. The path from Szilard’s idea to its deadly realisation is ...

Tokyo, Japan (CNN)-- The only man recognized as a survivor of both atom bombs dropped in Japan ... the U.S. B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy," which exploded ...

After the first atomic bomb explosion (seen here from 10,000 yards away, in a time series from .006 seconds to .081 seconds after detonation), Oppenheimer recalled, "a few people laughed ...

HIROSHIMA--Teruko Yahata was eight when she saw a blueish-white light envelop the sky over her home city of Hiroshima one summer morning, moments before the first atomic bomb explosion knocked her ...