Although the war hampered their work, by the fall of the Third Reich in 1945 they had achieved a significant enrichment in small samples of uranium. Not enough for an atomic bomb, but uranium 235 ...

and the Bomb ‘There’s more to the story of Hitler’s scientists than whether they knew how to build an atomic bomb. They navigated the politics of the Third Reich, kept working as their world collapsed ...

This is the third installment in the series. The atomic bomb in Hiroshima left thousands of children orphaned. A Buddhist monk raised such children as if they were his own, and one of his charges ...

A third building at the site will be preserved, and its walls and roof will be repaired and reinforced to protect it from earthquakes. AFP/Getty Images The atomic bomb destroyed thousands of ...

Stubbornly, incomprehensibly, Japan still refused to surrender so three days later, a second atomic bomb was dropped, this time on Nagasaki. In the two attacks, up to a third of a million people died.

Atomic bomb survivor Hironaka Masaki ... participate as an observer at the Third Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons to be held in March next year.