After the first atomic bomb explosion (seen here from 10,000 yards away, in a time series from .006 seconds to .081 seconds after detonation), Oppenheimer recalled, "a few people laughed ...

USI held its annual Shaw Biology lecture in Carter Hall. The guest speaker this year was Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer ...

How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic bomb? The truth is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have built a weapon like the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

will soon republish a book originally released 14 years ago, based on the accounts of people who grew up at an orphanage in Nagasaki shortly after the city was leveled by an atomic bomb blast 77 ...

This book, aimed at the 75 th anniversary of the Atomic Bombings and the end of World War II in the Pacific, is really out of its time and place. Author Tom Lewis (The Empire Strikes South) wants to ...

She compiled four atomic bomb poems and the story of her experience ... one in Japanese and the other in English. She titled these books “Ningen yo Eichi to Ai wo” (Fellow Humans!

Unearthing the true story of the British contribution to the creation of the atomic bomb, Williams argues that British scientists were crucial to all stages of the project, especially through the ...

Mushroom clouds from bomb tests “enhanced the amazing sunsets and purple mountains of the Mojave Desert” as he grew up, Stanford writes in the book. Three times, atomic tests cracked the ...