US President Donald Trump's statement regarding the nuclear bomb has raised fears worldwide that the pursuit of weapons of mass destruction could escalate. Amidst this debate, the hydrogen bomb has ...

The first reports were met with disbelief. A single bomb with the explosive force to level a city; a bomb, detonated with such intensity it burned as bright as — maybe, even brighter than — the sun.

Pt. 1. Historical narrative. The debate over Hiroshima ; Building the atomic bomb ; The Pacific war ; The decision to drop the bomb ; The Japanese government, Ketsu-Go, and Potsdam ; Hiroshima, ...

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 ...