Following the horrifying nuclear detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet Union initially lagged in the atomic ...

Folk artist Anna May has released her new single, “Atom Bomb.” Recorded by Steve Rizzo at Stable Sound Studios, “Atom Bomb” ...

For decades afterwards, studios tried to recapture the magic of George Lucas’s space epic. MGM wanted its own sci-fi ...

This is a closer look at a selection of masterpieces that stand tall as brilliant original creations brought to life solely ...

NASA and several other space agencies are today vying to land humans again on the Moon. But, do you know there was a time when the Americans planned to nuke our lunar satellite? This might sound like ...

Most historians and scholars agree, the proximate start of the Second World War is Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939, because at that point, Hitler's invasion causes Great Britain and ...

In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the public this year. Located on White Sands Missile Range, the Trinity Site is ...

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

Lauren Anne Constance receives funding from The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Japan Foundation Endowment Committee. Known as hibakusha in ...

When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic bomb, there are a few obvious choices. July 16, 1945, was the date of the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, and has been used by some as ...

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.