After the first Soviet nuclear detonation in 1949, Moscow pushed hard to create a more practical and efficient weapon. The ...
Departing in the predawn darkness of Aug. 6, 1945, a modified B-29, designated with radio call sign ‘Dimples 82', was carrying a single bomb. Enola Gay was about to change the world. Approximately a ...
North Korea warned this week that it might test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean, after saying the country had already ...
Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...