HIROSHIMA, March 8 (Reuters) - 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 ...

In May 1945, near the end of World War II, Germany surrendered to the Allies but Japan refused. To end the war quickly, President Truman's government decided to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On ...

Devastation on Aug. 9, 1945 when the United States detonated a second atomic bomb, this time over Nagasaki, Japan. Temuri Tanaka was there. He tells Global News he remembers the explosion, a blast of ...

An eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb tests in the Marshall Islands, along with some remarkably prescient observations about what they could mean for future superpower rivalries.

Writing about nuclear war is difficult because it is easy. J Robert Oppenheimer himself, the so-called father of the atomic bomb, set the tone with his paraphrasing of the Bhagavad Gita after the ...

A study has been released revealing that global warming has generated energy in the oceans at a level equivalent to one atomic bomb exploding every second. A research team led by Professor Laure Zanna ...

A so-called “earthquake bomb” from the Second World War blew up 75 years behind schedule on Tuesday after a failed underwater operation to defuse it in Poland. Video shows the 5.4-tonne (12,000-pound) ...

The testing of nuclear weapons is suddenly a major topic of discussion after being largely dormant for three decades. Last week, Russia tested a nuclear-powered missile, but did not detonate an actual ...

In 2020’s “Tenet,” Christopher Nolan blew up a 747, and for his latest feature, “Oppenheimer,” he recreated the Trinity Test without using visual effects, opting to find a way to do it in-camera ...

North Korea's government bragged Wednesday that it had tested "a smaller H-bomb," calling it the "H-bomb of justice." White House spokesman Josh Earnest, however, counters that initial analysis "is ...