The design included a sleek, jet-age body and forward cab placement to distance occupants from radiation exposure. While only ...

The original Atomic Energy Act of 1946 provided that, besides being used for weapons, “the development and utilization of atomic energy shall, so far as practicable, be directed toward improving the ...

One year old last week, the Atomic Age was offered, as one of its birthday presents, Atomic Power!, the first moving picture to portray it not as cloak-&-Geiger-counter melodrama but as deadly serious ...

Christopher Nolan believes J. Robert Oppenheimer is the most important person who ever lived. “By unleashing nuclear power,” the film director concludes, “he gave us the power to destroy ourselves.” ...

Nuclear reactors were originally designed to make bombs. They still do, in what are called dual-use reactors. These produce plutonium while simultaneously generating electricity. Chernobyl was a ...

Three times a month, a busload of tourists heads to a Nevada desert test site, where they marvel at the lake-sized Sedan Crater created in 1962 by the below-ground explosion of a 104-kiloton hydrogen ...