Group Captain Richard Dixon, who has died aged 93, saw service in the Suez Canal Zone and was twice deployed to Christmas ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer led the scientific effort that created the world’s first atomic bomb during World War II. The Trinity test in 1945 produced an explosion equal to nearly 25,000 tons of TNT, ...

Departing in the predawn darkness of Aug. 6, 1945, a modified B-29, designated with radio call sign ‘Dimples 82', was carrying a single bomb. Enola Gay was about to change the world. Approximately a ...

Capt. Robert A Lewis wrote the account during and in the immediate aftermath of dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, ...

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The U.S. Vice President stated that Trump was seeking a long-term guarantee that Iran would never pursue nuclear weapons ...

Ty Bannerman will read from and sign copies of “Nuclear Family: a memoir of the atomic west” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, as part of the Bad Mouth Reading Series at the q-Staff Theatre, 400 Broadway ...

From outset, this was clear that prospect of acquiring weapon tech was at least part of reason for Iran’s interest in nuclear ...

French President Emmanuel Macron announced the extension of France's nuclear deterrent to eight European nations, alongside ...

At 5:30 a.m. mountain war time on July 16, 1945, the world’s first nuclear weapon detonated over a flat, arid stretch of New Mexico desert. The Trinity test, as it was code-named, confirmed that an ...

Iranians took full advantage of the program. They founded the Tehran Nuclear Research Center at the University of Tehran.

Mind-bending materials called quasicrystals have an orderly structure, but without a regularly repeating pattern. They’ve been found in meteorites and the debris from the first atomic bomb test.