A secret detachment of military photographers documented America’s bomb tests.

Libya wanted to build one. Some fear Iran and North Korea still do. But a man in Hawthorne has actually done it. Built his own atom bomb, that is. Sort of. Robert Wilhite has reproduced “Fat Man ...

The kaleidoscopic patterns in this artwork draw the eye towards its glowing centre. Despite its dreamy, hypnotic effect, however, the work has its roots in the terrifying reality of a nuclear bomb ...

HIGASHIMATSUYAMA, Japan — Pika. It means glitter or flash in Japanese. It’s what survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima remember from exactly 75 years ago. The flash that popped in a ...

Nevada used to be atomic blast central, so it’s fitting that students at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas paid tribute to the weirdness of atomic-bomb art and propaganda with a new ...

But the powerful aboveground nuclear bomb tests of the mid-1900s created even more carbon 14 isotopes out of that atmospheric nitrogen. ... The Best Art Shows of 2025: ...

Never forget. Those words are repeated after each incident, and yet there appears to be a whole lot of forgetting going on. Nuclear devastation and forgetting was a theme of “Hiroshima Mon Amour,” the ...

Two videos and about 160 pictures on display show the devastation from the nuclear attack, which took place on Aug. 6, 1945, ...

RENO, Nevada — The world’s first nuclear weapons explosion occurred on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico. Three weeks later, the world changed when the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

The core of every nuclear warhead is a hollow, globe-shaped plutonium pit made by engineers at the Energy Department’s lab in Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the atom bomb. Many of the ...