The United Nations has established a panel to examine what impact a nuclear war would have. One of the members is a Japanese ...

Author and historian Iain MacGregor profiles a diverse range of players in his latest book about the first atomic bomb used ...

On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time, humanity entered the nuclear age with a blinding flash of light in the New ...

“It was a quirk of history that at that moment the energy of the atom was engineered to kill,” Schmidt told The National Interest. “The longer legacy of that day will be much greater than ‘the bomb.’ ...

The wives of the Pajarito Plateau are said to have paused to assess the changes in their husbands as the men returned late to dinner and supped with murky preoccupation in the weeks leading up to the ...

The 1980s witnessed mass demonstrations demanding a nuclear freeze. Today, the threat of nuclear war is beginning to enter ...