Humans’ learning about nuclear concepts that led to nuclear energy and nuclear bombs was one of the most important turning points in human history. This represented the first time that humanity ...
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 ...
Researchers at Stockholm University in Sweden and Vanderbilt University in Tennessee studied historic observatory photos to find signs of flashes of light. The researchers then drew a statistical ...
Though the country’s nuclear arsenal has undergone no explosive testing for decades, federal experts say it can reliably obliterate targets halfway around the globe. By William J. Broad President ...
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