He tracked down the photographer and interviewed former showgirls who confirmed Miss Atomic Bomb’s stage name. But the woman’s real name still eluded him.

Take an in-depth look at how the atomic bomb "Little Boy" worked, the first nuclear weapon ever used in warfare. Dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, the bomb marked the beginning of the ...

Einstein never worked directly on developing the world’s first atomic bomb for the United States, but its shadow loomed over ...

The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, effectively ended WWII, but took thousands of civilian lives. On August 6, 1945, the bomb was dropped on the city.

It's precisely that shock-and-awe effect that's on full display in director Christopher Nolan's unsettling historical drama, "Oppenheimer."With the energy of a slow-building thermonuclear blast ...

Find out just how close the Nazis came to building atomic weapons during World War II, and view the only known diagram of a German nuclear bomb.

The Manhattan Project ushered in not only the nuclear age but the Anthropocene, the epoch in geological time that denotes humans' transformation of the Earth's chemistry, climate and biodiversity.

Christopher Nolan’s complex, vivid portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” is a brilliant achievement in formal and conceptual terms.