What they built changed the world forever and continues to shape the geopolitical landscape in the 21st century. Known as the ‘father of the atomic bomb’, Oppenheimer was a remarkable theoretical ...

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.

In the early hours of 6 August 1945, Colonel Paul Tibbets climbed aboard a B-29 Superfortress bomber loaded with a 10,000-pound atomic bomb nicknamed 'Little Boy'. Tibbets guided the plane, named ...

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 ...