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

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 ...

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 Bomb Peak: Nuclear Fallout’s Silver Lining . The world’s nuclear nations exploded 550 nuclear weapons during tests between the years of 1945 and 1963 when the Limited Test Ban Treaty ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paintings depicting the infamous Maralinga nuclear bomb tests to feature at Melbourne Art Fair. ... There were 12 massive nuclear blasts between 1952 and 1957 at Maralinga and Emu Field in South ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This story has been update to fix broken art on this article. HARRISBURG -- In May 1966, Columbia Gas and the federal Atomic Energy Commission presented an audacious plan to a ...