The conclusion of World War II came with a daunting choice that forever changed history: the use of atomic bombs on Japan.

August 6 and 9 are the 80 th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 civilians at Hiroshima was the effect of detonating a 60-million-degree Celsius ...

Limited nuclear war is a possibility grounded in strategic logic and a probability accentuated by the current geopolitical and military context. Planning for limited nuclear war is necessary not only ...

Japanese men carry a victim of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki in this August 1945 file photo by Japanese photographer Yosuke Yamahata. via REUTERS Eighty years ago, in one of the most consequential ...

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...

Aug. 6 (UPI) --Eighty years ago today, the first of two atom bombs was used in anger. Hiroshima was vaporized. But one plane, one bomb, destroying a city was inconceivable. The Japanese now could ...

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state produced plutonium for most of America's nuclear arsenal through the end ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko issued a chilling nuclear war threat after Donald Trump said he would send Tomahawk ...

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Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian president and Deputy Chairman of the Security Council, has reacted to remarks by US President ...

Aug. 6 and 9 are the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 civilians at Hiroshima was the effect of detonating a 60-million-degree Celsius ...