Eighty years ago, World War II was poised to end—or continue indefinitely with countless more lives lost. Physicists struggled to understand and harness the power of nuclear fission and build an ...
Today is the anniversary of Hiroshima – when an atomic bomb nicknamed Little Boy was dropped on Japan. On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was left devastated, with up to 166,00 dying in the blast, and in ...