Nuclear explosions

The atomic bombings Eighty years ago, the ...

How the top-secret Manhattan Project saw the invention of the atomic bomb, which culminated in the end of one war and the beginning of another

Senkichi Awaya was sitting in his dining room at the mayor’s residence in Hiroshima as the clocked ticked round to 8.15am on 6 August 1945. His teenage son Shinobu, and granddaughter Ayako, refugees f

At the climax of fighting in the Pacific, the USA revealed its ultimate weapon and ushered in a new era of warfare

Eighty years after the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki amid the rationale that it would save lives, a new book tells the sur vivors’ stories

Almost exactly 80 years ago, the world’s first atomic test explosion shattered the quiet of a New Mexico morning. A few weeks later, and in the space of a few days, nuclear weapons were dropped on Hir