When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...

The ashes of about 70,000 victims of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in August 1945 in the closing days of World War II ...

It rained bombs over Nazi Germany and braved skies filled with flak and fighters. The B-17 Flying Fortress became a symbol of ...

On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time, humanity entered the nuclear age with a blinding flash of light in the New Mexico desert. The Trinity test, conducted in the Jornada del Muerto desert ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Tuesday compared the race to dominate artificial intelligence (AI) to an American atomic bomb program during World War II. “The AI race is the second Manhattan ...

The 1980s witnessed mass demonstrations demanding a nuclear freeze. Today, the threat of nuclear war is beginning to enter ...

We bombed Iran and, despite a temporary cessation of hostilities, it’s likely that President Donald Trump and his counterpart in Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, intend to drag the United ...

Bonaventure Cemetery will welcome the remains of a native WWII fighter killed in combat on Friday, the city announced.

U.S. Army Air Forces pilot 2nd Lt. Gilbert A. Rauh, who was killed in action in 1943, will be interred Monday at Arlington ...

In 1946, the US organized a football game featuring a pro fullback and a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback in the ruins of ...