"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...

So why not the atomic bomb? Nazi Germany ... an element roughly half the size of uranium. Their former colleague Lise Meitner, who a few months before had been forced to flee Germany and seek ...

It didn’t take long for us to turn the atomic bomb into atomic energy. People thought nuclear power would be so pervasive that concepts were popping up in the before ’50s that had ...

The lives of two atomic bombing survivors have become unexpectedly linked through the rescue of a life-size model of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima that was bound for the junkyard. When Hiroshi ...