After eight months of a war that decimated its leadership and impoverished the country, Iran appears more likely now to seek ...

He instantly recognized it as one of the uranium cubes used by German scientists in their unsuccessful attempt to build a ...

Pickaxe Mountain has been described as an "underground fortress" unreachable with commonly used weapons.

At 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, briefly became a furnace unlike any on Earth’s surface. The world’s first nuclear bomb test vaporized steel, copper, cables, ...

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima created a completely new material never before seen on Earth, scientists have discovered. Researchers analysing tiny grains hidden within fallout debris have identified ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This is a 1960 photo of a U.S. nuclear weapon of the uranium bomb Little Boy type that was detonated over Hiroshima in ...

The first atomic bomb is detonated near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. The successful test paved the way for the use of atomic bombs against Japan at the end of World War II.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. AP/Wide World Photos ...

At 10:52 am, around 750 kilometers from the explosion, the navigator wrote the words "cloud gone" in the Enola Gay's logs.

The general public has long had a degree of wariness and uncertainty surrounding nuclear reactors, thanks largely to the fact that many associate nuclear energy with nuclear bombs. That's fair, thanks ...

CHINA has revealed plans to build a huge 15-storey tall nuclear bomb-proof “mobile island”. The aircraft-carrier sized ...