A 1-megaton nuclear explosion detonated near a 160-meter asteroid produced damage and motion consistent with the object ...
On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
The extreme conditions of atomic bomb explosions create “uncontrolled microexperiments” that, in Hiroshima, forged a never-before-seen metallic alloy ...
The printing press, light bulb, internal combustion engine and computer moved the world into a mostly better future.
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What is a nuclear bomb?

The nuclear bomb is the deadliest weapon on Earth, and its creation permanently changed warfare forever. But what actually ...
In two separate papers published in Physical Review Letters, researchers investigated the nuclear reactions that take place ...
The devastating blast vaporized buildings, metal, glass, soil and water. When the substances cooled and condensed, the ...
The nuclear bomb is the deadliest weapon on Earth. But what actually happens inside a nuclear bomb? Modern nuclear weapons ...
An excerpt from "Trinity: An Illustrated History of the World’s First Atomic Test," by author Emily Seyl.
The Manhattan Project produced the plutonium that changed history, but left behind a radioactive legacy America is still ...