Traditional hydrogen bombs work through nuclear fusion, a process where atomic nuclei combine under intense pressure to ...

In order to build an atomic bomb, the Manhattan Project first needed to prove that a chain reaction would actually work the way they thought it would. Second, they needed to build more and larger ...

Japan's aging atomic bomb survivors, known as hibakusha, continue to work for a nuclear weapons-free world. They hope the treaty will come into force by next year. In his peace declaration this ...

The story of the atomic bomb. Told through the scientists and spies who changed history. The race to beat the Nazis and stolen secrets. Show more The story of the atomic bomb. Told through the ...

Their work to achieve the first nuclear reaction in 1942 marked the start of the Atomic ... The project then moved to Los Alamos, New Mexico, where just two-and-a-half years later, the first test of ...

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo ... Fermi won the Nobel Prize for his work in 1938. He was a committed antifascist and when he and his wife left Italy for the Nobel ceremony ...

And as the war progressed the conflict demonstrated how difficult it would be for either side to use atomic bombs decisively in battle. With her brother on her back a war weary Korean girl ...

It was bombed during an air raid in June 1944 along with the state-owned Yahata Steel Works in current Yahata-Higashi Ward. Kita-Kyushu was also an initial target for an atomic bomb. On the ...