The "A" stands for "atomic," and was quickly adopted as a name for the earliest nuclear weapons. The A-Bomb wasn't just tested by the U.S., as it was infamously used twice against an enemy ...

After 25 years of exhaustive research and investigative effort, historian and founding Atomic Museum member Robert Friedrichs has uncovered the true identity of the woman behind one of the most ...

The newspapers have done an adequate job of guessing about the principles of the atomic bomb and about the possibilities of atomic power in the future. The accompanying article, composed mainly of ...

Abandon the nuclear deterrence theory and let go of fixation First ... At that meeting, Setsuko Thurlow, an atomic bomb survivor living in Canada-who is also present here today-strongly criticized ...

To end it, the most powerful weapon the world had ever seen was about to be unleashed, a watershed in world history: the atomic bomb. The bomb’s colossal destructive power comes from the vast ...

That very act saved their lives. Only two atomic bombs have ever been dropped in the history of mankind, both by the United States in 1945 in the final stages of the second world war. The first ...

The energy required can be calculated using quantum electrodynamics (QED)—the quantum theory of electromagnetism. However, insufficient knowledge of the structure of such heavy atomic nuclei ...

Fujii Heiichi Documents for the first edition of the World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, held in 1955 A survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Yamada Reiko continues to ...