In the late 1950s, US scientists proposed Project Chariot, a controversial plan to use nuclear bombs to create a harbor in ...

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima created a completely new material never before seen on Earth, scientists have discovered.

At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the course of World War II and the history of Japan changed when the US military dropped the ...

Scientists found a new metallic alloy in Hiroshima shoreline sand. This alloy formed from extreme heat and rapid cooling ...

Atomic bomb survivors in Japan suffered not only in the immediate aftermath of the blasts, but also in postwar years. Now, ...

Remnants of a destroyed building with a dome structure stand behind a black metal fence. The domed structure now known as the Hiroshima Peace Memorial is the one of the only remaining buildings that ...

The devastating blast vaporized buildings, metal, glass, soil and water. When the substances cooled and condensed, the process created spherical glassy grains—and some of them seem to contain a previo ...

On August 6, 1945 — 81 years ago — the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the ...

One winter’s day in June 1956, Britain detonated the largest weapon ever exploded in Australia. The test, code-named Mosaic G2, was conducted at Western Australia’s remote Montebello Islands, site of ...

The extreme conditions of atomic bomb explosions create “uncontrolled microexperiments” that, in Hiroshima, forged a never-before-seen metallic alloy ...

Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.

It was a rare Earth metal. Often cited among the most destructive forces in history, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945 also gave rise to a rare metal never seen on Earth, per a ...