J. Robert Oppenheimer was born in New York in 1904. He was the son of first-generation Jewish immigrants who came to America ...

After the first atomic bomb explosion (seen here from 10,000 yards away, in a time series from .006 seconds to .081 seconds after detonation), Oppenheimer recalled, "a few people laughed ...

This was the year in which H G Wells published The World Set Free, a speculative novel that envisioned nuclear warfare and coined the term “atomic bomb”. Wells wrote the book in Switzerland ...

Brazil has the necessary knowledge to build an atomic bomb according to an article in ... Part of the thesis was recently published in Brazil in a book with several contributions, “Physics ...

A new book by David N. Schwartz ... Fermi was in Los Alamos when he overheard that the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. How did he react to this news? There's nothing recorded.

HIROSHIMA--Shooting will begin next year for a movie portraying the bond between the U.S. author of the bestseller “Hiroshima” and an atomic bomb survivor featured in the book. John Hersey was ...