Stimson's essay concluded: "With the release of atomic energy, man's ability to destroy himself is very nearly complete. The ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — The Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Oak Ridge is looking for people interested in helping ring the International Friendship Bell at Bissell Park to commemorate the ...

At the height of World War II, Klaus Fuchs, a brilliant British physicist working on the Manhattan Project, secretly passed ...

This week marks 80 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — killing an estimated 200,000 people. Historian Garrett Graff’s new book “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky” draws ...

LEWISTON, N.Y. — As the world marks 80 years since the Atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the effort to develop the weapon lingers in the ground throughout Western New York.

Eighty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Japan to force the unconditional surrender that ended World War II. The fearsome weapons were created by ...

The U.S. was the first nation to test a nuclear bomb, doing so in 1945, and continued testing above and below ground until a ...

Eighty years ago this week, the world truly changed. The United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, followed three days later by the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.