An all-important datum in risk assessment is the radiation dose to individual survivors of the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The first set of dose estimates for survivors was based on a ...

The Atomic Energy Commission recently formally signified its intention of supporting long-range medical studies of the survivors of the atomic bombings in Japan, to be conducted by the Committee on ...

Eighty years ago – on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945 – the U.S. military dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, thrusting humanity into a terrifying new age. In mere moments, tens of thousands of ...

On August 6, 1945, during World War II, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The Allied forces dropped a second atomic ...

Nuclear-weapons physicist Greg Spriggs rates eight nuclear-explosion scenes in movies such as "Oppenheimer" (2023) and Marvel's "The Avengers" (2012).

HIROSHIMA, Japan — More than 50,000 people gathered at this city’s Peace Memorial Park on Thursday to remember the victims of the world’s first atomic bombing and hear a renewed appeal for world ...