The letter also galvanised the US into action. In April 1940 the government appointed the veteran physicist Arthur Compton to head a nuclear weapons programme, which eventually became the ...

This plutonium atomic bomb was called Trinity and it marked the beginning of the nuclear age. Read about who invented it, how the tests went, and why humanity decided to create such a terrible weapon.

“Oppenheimer” finally premiered Friday in the nation where two cities were obliterated 79 years ago by the nuclear weapons invented by the American scientist who was the subject of the Oscar ...

That "thing" was the atomic bomb, but since being acquired by the UK, nuclear weapons have been a "divisive issue" within Labour, said the BBC. Michael Foot, who became Labour leader in 1980 ...

To end it, the most powerful weapon the world had ever seen was about to be unleashed, a watershed in world history: the atomic bomb. The bomb’s colossal destructive power comes from the vast ...