How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic bomb? The truth is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have built a weapon like the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen bought a copy of Einstein's infamous 1939 letter to Roosevelt in 2002. It just sold at ...

The scientist warned the US president that Germany might be able to develop an atomic weapon A letter from Albert Einstein ...

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo ... and Lise Meitner took it up in Germany. They began to suspect that Fermi hadn't created a new element at all but might have actually split ...

By World War II, his drive to defeat Germany would propel him to direct the Manhattan Project — the top-secret development of an American atomic bomb — at the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico.

A NATO fighter jet from Germany was spotted carrying a nuclear gravity bomb trainer, designed and manufactured by the United ...

AFP/Getty Images The atomic bomb destroyed thousands of buildings ... work to make it more earthquake resistant. After Germany had surrendered in May 1945, Japan continued the war in Asia.

‘Hitler’s Atomic Bomb is a masterful account of the German nuclear program in history and mythology. Based on the latest research, Walker demonstrates that Nazi Germany never had the resources to ...

The first full weekend of September, with the Line fire 20,000 acres in size and only 3% contained, a resident of San ...

Did Werner Heisenberg, Teller's former teacher, purposely stall Germany's efforts to produce an Atomic Bomb in World War II? And would Teller's controversial Star Wars missile defense system ...

Written to President Franklin D Roosevelt, in 1939, the note warns that Nazi Germany might be able to ... would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would never have lifted a finger." ...