Atomic Bomb

Nagasaki Day 2021: On 76th anniversary of atomic bombing, UN Secretary-General vows support for eliminating nukes

António Guterres, on the solemn occassion, remarked that even 76 years later, the world remains 'under the shadow of the mushroom cloud'

Hiroshima Day 2021: Significance, history, and all you need to know about horror of nuclear weapons

On 6 August 1945, US bomber Enola Gray dropped the atomic bomb “Little Boy,” containing power equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT on Hiroshima

In The Great Secret, Jennet Conant explores the link between a WWII tragedy and a cancer breakthrough

The Great Secret is at its heart a scientific detective saga starring Alexander in its first half and Rhoads in its second, as the raw material of Alexander's dogged scientific work is transformed into the effective (and sometimes not so effective) standard cancer treatment of chemotherapy.

NASA warns meteors are serious threat to Earth, will happen once very 60 years

NASA calls for a global network of surveillance system to keep an eye out for near-Earth objects.

Japan marks 72nd anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bombing amid tensions with nuclear-armed North Korea

Japan on Sunday marked 72 years since the world’s first nuclear attack on Hiroshima

Hiroshima survivors criticise Obama's speech, says it evaded US responsibility

An association of Japanese atomic bomb survivors has criticised US President Barack Obama's speech last month during a historic visit to Hiroshima.

The story of thorium: A $50,000,000,000,000,000 (50 quadrillion) discovery untapped

Despite much optimism and promise, the development of thorium energy has historically been hampered by politics, bureaucracy and economics.

On his historic Hiroshima visit, Barack Obama recalled how 71 years ago 'death fell from the sky'

US President Barack Obama's Hiroshima visit drew raves on social media and from the many of the thousands who turned up to witness the historic event.

Obama to meet A-bomb survivors at the Hiroshima Memorial

Survivors of the American nuclear bombing of Hiroshima will be present and will meet US President Barack Obama when he lays a wreath at ground zero.

A thousand times more powerful than an atomic bomb, here's why the H-bomb is a scary thought

The hydrogen bomb, also called the thermonuclear bomb, uses fusion, or atomic nuclei coming together, to produce explosive energy.