The weapon "will provide the President with additional nuclear options against certain harder and large-area military targets", the DOE said.

Richard Garwin was a particle physicist and inventor with a lifelong mission to nudge the US government towards rational, ...

Richard Garwin’s role in designing the hydrogen bomb was obscured from the public, even his family, as he advised presidents ...

An atomic bomb unleashes immense heat, pressure, and radiation—but could anything really survive such devastation? From cockroaches and deep-earth bacteria to specially designed military bunkers ...

This is the story of the aircraft that ended up costing more than the atomic bomb itself, raising questions about wartime priorities, innovation, and what true value looks like in the theater of war.

In August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki—the only use of nuclear weapons in war. The blast and radiation killed an estimated 200,000 people. Nearly 80 years ...

It calls for an attack upon the potential enemy at a time and place of our own choosing while the United States retains the monopoly of the atomic bomb. Let us not delude ourselves that victory would ...

IT IS possible that in the large light of history, if indeed there is to be history, the atomic bomb will appear not very different than in the bright light of the first atomic explosion. Partly ...

Najam Sethi emphasised that Pakistan may use its nuclear bomb even in a conventional war if its existence is at stake. He said that Islamabad will not wait for India to use its atomic bomb and ...

And even though it has been six months since its release, I just can’t stop listening to How to Reassemble an Atomic Bomb. It’s rock, it’s raw and unpolished. It’s music in the life-melody ...

The collected materials will be stored at the National Peace Memorial halls for atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With consent from owners or families, some of the items will be ...

Grant Young covers Women’s Basketball, the Indiana Fever and the New York Mets for Sports Illustrated’s ‘On SI’ sites. He holds an MFA degree in creative writing from the University of San ...