T HE USE of the newly invented atomic bomb at the end of the second world war changed geopolitics, physics, the nature of the ...

The hydrogen bomb, unlike the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima, generates energy through fusion by fusing isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium. This fusion process requires extremely high ...

This week marks 80 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — killing an estimated 200,000 people. Historian Garrett Graff’s new book “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky” draws ...

Gen. Leslie Groves oversaw construction of government facilities to collect uranium for an atomic bomb. Courtesy: the Westcott family Some work into nuclear science was already going on at U.S.

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people and a second bomb on Nagasaki (Aug. 9) killed ...

The historian Garrett Graff tells us early on in his new book, “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb,” of the mountains he scaled to ...