With 25 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Japan is ideal for those who like to explore the historical and environmental aspects of ...

There’s no signpost marking Mississippi’s only nuclear test site. While the federal government monitors the underground area, ...

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

At first, sharks - drawn by the sound of explosions, the scent of blood, and the frantic splashing - focused on the floating ...

It unleashed an airburst equivalent to 500 kilotonnes of TNT – about 30 Hiroshima nuclear bombs’ worth of energy. The explosion, which began some 20km above Earth, resulted in a blast wave ...

The Southerners’ olive tree, the one that was planted in the front yard, now overturned, uprooted, burned, and burned and burned, they cradle it. They kiss it, like a mother her dead child. They hold ...

Before visiting the A-bomb sites in Hiroshima with kids, read this first-hand guide to know how to prepare and what to expect ...

By Keith Hamm By design, the detonation of a nuclear weapon in a major city would be devastating. The explosion of intense ...

a Hiroshima Electric Railway representative outlined the tram’s history, speaking before a smartphone set up inside it. During the ride, the students got glimpses of the Atomic Bomb Dome and ...

Editor in chief Nancy Shute traces the history of nuclear weapons, from the first sustained nuclear reaction in 1942 to the renewed interest in explosive tests today.

Researchers who have expertise in the atomic bombing in Hiroshima and atomic bomb victims investigated the number of U.S. POWs who died from the blast and concluded that it was 12. The official ...