American nuclear weapons, specifically the atomic bomb, brought World War II to a close. They then averted a hot war with the Soviet Union and bolstered decades of global stability. The decisive ...

A physicist labors to build a DIY nuclear weapon in a cartoon from a newly declassified Cold War era document. Credit: National Security Archive The National Security Archive has published ...

A NAGASAKI World War Two bombing survivor - who devoted his life to campaigning against nuclear weapons - has died aged 93. Shigemi Fukahori horrifically described the "skin melting" impact of the ...

Germany, a key European nation and NATO member, is reportedly preparing to utilize some of its nearly 580 bunkers, remnants from the Cold War and World War II - showing how concerned the country ...

The US is thought to have dropped the 89cm-long (3ft) device during WW2. It was found by workers ... site was the world's most serious nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986.

documentWW2: Countdown to Hiroshima: The bomb that changed the world A timeline of the events in the days and hours before the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. WW2: How close did D ...

He became famous after surviving the horror nuclear bomb that tragically killed nearly 50,000 people and shaped the area for decades. Fukahori was only 14 when the US dropped the atomic weapon on ...