Nukes

White Sands Missile Range, where the U.S. detonated the world's first nuclear weapon known as "the Gadget" on July 16, 1945...

On May 21, 1946, Dr. Louis Slotin suffered a fatal dose of radiation during an accident involving a nuclear bomb.

The atomic age formally began at exactly 5:30 a.m. (Mountain time) on July 16, 1945. At that moment, the Manhattan Project...

Seoul and Washington have agreed to begin talks about deploying the THAAD missile defense system in South Korea.

The number of nuclear missile launch officers implicated in a cheating scandal indicated a "systemic" problem, officials said...

The crew of the B-29 called the Enola Gay” had no regrets about dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, but prayed that the...