The spy who changed history and a great-aunt's double life. In season one we met the scientist who might have stopped the atomic bomb. In season two we meet the man who stole it. Show more The spy ...

Widely known as “Miss Atomic Bomb,” she had long been identified as a model named Lee Merlin — but, as it turns out, this was only a stage name. As researcher and historian Robert Friedrichs ...

The lives of two atomic bombing survivors have become unexpectedly linked through the rescue of a life-size model of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima that was bound for the junkyard. When Hiroshi ...

Traditional hydrogen bombs work through nuclear fusion, a process where atomic nuclei combine under intense pressure to release energy. However, China’s device does not rely on nuclear fusion.

HIROSHIMA--Shooting will begin next year for a movie portraying the bond between the U.S. author of the bestseller “Hiroshima” and an atomic bomb survivor featured in the book. John Hersey was ...

Iran is not far from having an atomic bomb, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog was quoted as saying in a Le Monde interview published Wednesday, just hours before a visit to Tehran. International ...

TOKYO: Charles Oppenheimer, a grandson of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who is known as the “father of the atomic bomb,” called for the peaceful use of nuclear energy as he continued his ...