The number of visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum documenting the devastation caused by the U.S. atomic bombing ...

HIROSHIMA (Japan), March 17 (Bernama-Kyodo) -- The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, which chronicles the devastation caused ...

Historians often suggest that America’s super-weapon forced Hirohito to surrender in 1945. Look closer, and the truth is more complex ...

Scientists have been building nuclear weapons for more than 80 years, but crafting this technology remains a challenge.

Donald Trump said nuclear weapons were the 'greatest threat to humanity', the deadliest one America has is much stronger than ...

After 52 months of studying atom-bomb damage to buildings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense summed up their findings for the benefit of U.S ...

Hiroshima survivor and Nihon Hidankyo assistant secretary general Jiro Hamasumi won't rest until there are zero nuclear ...

The damage was comparable to the atomic bombings a few months later in August 1945, but unlike those attacks, the Japanese ...

Rain of Ruin, a new study by war expert Richard Overy, decisively shows that the atomic bombs didn’t force the Japanese emperor’s hand ...

These scenes could have come from Hiroshima or Nagasaki after the atomic bombings in World War II ... and energetic neutrons that penetrate the body and cause acute cellular damage, leading to death ...

After the presumed success of what an atomic bomb could do, military planners decided to use Hiroshima as the test ... above the ground for maximum damage, the bomb’s force caused a pressure ...

The asteroid has a chance to “cause localized damage,” but it is unlikely ... and gave off 30 times the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. If this asteroid does hit a city, it could be ...