On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On Aug. 9, 1945, a second bombing was dropped on Nagasaki. The atomic bombs instantly took thousands of ...

July 16 is National Atomic Veterans Day, dedicated to the thousands of troops who participated in secret nuclear testing or were POWs in Nagasaki or Hiroshima. By Abigail Spanberger Published Jul 15, ...

Event brings former employees back to Oak Ridge site to share stories of Manhattan Project and Cold War work ...

The first reports were met with disbelief. A single bomb with the explosive force to level a city; a bomb, detonated with such intensity it burned as bright as — maybe, even brighter than — the sun.

The film “Oppenheimer,” directed by Christopher Nolan, was released to critical acclaim July 21, and detailed the construction, usage and consequences of the atomic bombs — which had ties to a Lorain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The American Museum of Science and Energy Foundation has received a $17,000 grant from the state of Tennessee, which it will use ...

Nathan interviews photographer Ken Hackman about his role filming atomic tests at Lookout Mountain. Nathan interviews veteran combat photographer Ken Hackman about his time at Lookout Mountain Air ...

The United States began developing the atom bomb in military effort called the Manhattan Project. The race to create this weapon kicked off after three chemists in Berlin, 1938, split a uranium atom ...

Can a play influence public perception of our shared atomic history enough to shift the conversation away from a presumed nuclear “renaissance” and into a more critical, life-protective examination of ...