The big-idea explorers at Aperture uncover the shocking history behind the top-secret Manhattan Project.

The chilling true story behind the Demon Core. Discover the tragic experiments, scientific mistakes, and history surrounding ...

Nosing around a book fair for inspiration, a reporter found a firsthand account of one of humanity’s gravest acts, with ...

The United States carried out the Potsdam Declaration’s threat of “prompt and utter destruction” on August 6 when a B-29 ...

As an adult, Jeff Glauber discovered a letter his father had sent to his own parents after the U.S. military dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, revealing to them he had been ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, U.S. Army Air Force planes, led by the B-29 Superfortress ‘Enola Gay,’ dropped an atomic bomb (Code named ...

Most British people don’t know that their Government has started a Manhattan Project,” says Michael Cole, a plasma physicist ...

The decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima continues to stir debate today.

Thirty years after the bombing of Nagasaki, a US physicist who helped to assemble the bomb revealed to the BBC why the blast ...

On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

A new exhibit at Albuquerque's Nuclear Museum highlights the millions of women who served in WWII — including some with NM ties.

Looking up at the summer sky on my commute the other day, I found myself wondering what the mornings of August 1945 were like ...