"You know what? The Moon's big enough that we can nuke it and land on it at the same time, so let's give this a shot." In 1958, the U.S. government plotted to show up the Soviets in the Space Race — ...

The picture has been widely shared for years and purportedly shows the aftermath of the explosion in the Japanese city.

Andy Haverly aims to save Earth by using a 1960s project to extract geological materials from the ocean floor.

Once China produced weapons-grade uranium, it assembled its first atomic bomb in as little as three to five weeks. Iran may ...

"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...

But 70 years later, Nagasaki is once again a bustling city. The only remnant of the blast is a monument called the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum and Peace Park. Even the cathedral has been rebuilt.

A watch that melted during the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6 1945 has sold for more than 31,000 dollars (£24,000) at auction. The watch is frozen in time at the moment of the detonation of an ...

Hiroshima’s inhabitants came into contact with nuclear radiation in several ways: those close to the centre of the explosion received lethal doses for more than a minute after the atomic bomb ...