The aircraft flew toward Novaya Zemlya, a Russian archipelago located within the Arctic Circle. The Tu-95V carried an RDS-220 atomic bomb, also known as the Tsar Bomba, mounted on its underside. The ...

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.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok -- On April 19, 1995, a bomb exploded in front of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. It was the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil until the ...

A team of researchers has announced the discovery of millions of unusual debris buried in the sandy beaches near Hiroshima, Japan. These are believed to ...

Manhattan Project scientists working on the Thin Man plutonium gun assembly. Two atomic bombs nicknamed Little Boy and Fat Man were detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, effectively ...