“The atomic bomb,” he stated “played no decisive part, from a purely military standpoint, in the defeat of Japan….” A contemporaneous May 29, 1945 memorandum by Assistant Secretary of ...

The US delivered its first B61-13 nuclear bomb nearly a year early. With enhanced yield and precision, it modernizes a key ...

The weapon "will provide the President with additional nuclear options against certain harder and large-area military targets", the DOE said.

Iran is 'notorious' for reverse engineering weapons systems, a former US Army explosive ordnance disposal technician said.

Unlike other members of the B61 family of nuclear bombs that can be carried by fighters and bombers, the B61-13 will be ...

but rather a nuclear bomb attached to a parachute. It landed in the Mediterranean Sea, and Orts' observation ultimately helped the U.S. military recover the explosive after an exhaustive search.

At the end of the 1950s — a decade shy of Apollo 11’s successful lunar landing — the US military had the radical idea of detonating a nuclear bomb on ... late science icon passed in 1996 ...

The U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb, “Little Boy,” on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. It was a uranium-based bomb with an explosive power of about 15 kilotons, which would be considered ...

Analysis-Would Military Strikes Kill Iran's Nuclear Programme ... would take to produce enough fissile material for a nuclear bomb, currently days or weeks for Iran. Actually making a bomb ...