Hydrogen bombs cause a bigger explosion, which means the shock waves, blast, heat and radiation all have larger reach than an ...

As many as 19 people are missing and feared dead after a “devastating blast” leveled a Tennessee bomb factory Friday, according to officials. The massive explosion was reported around 7:45 a.m. local ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In May 1945, near the end of World War II, Germany surrendered to the Allies but Japan refused. To end the war quickly, President ...

HIROSHIMA (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 explosion ...

On August 6, 1945, the sky above the Japanese city of Hiroshima opened. A blinding flash, then a deafening sonic boom. An entire city pulverized in seconds. Thus began the nuclear age. Today, 80 years ...

A minute of silence was observed Saturday in Nagasaki, precisely at the time of the atomic bomb explosion dropped by a US bomber on the Japanese city 80 years ago, while the restored bell tower of the ...

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.

Nuclear testing wasn’t all that went underground in the 1950s in Las Vegas. The identity of the woman in the Atomic Age’s most iconic photograph was also buried. On May 24, 1957, a Sands Copa Room ...