Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo ... introducing the term "nuclear fission." Using Bohr's liquid drop model of the nucleus, they suggested that when split, both halves of the ...

Here are the differences between atomic and hydrogen bombs. Atomic bombs are powered solely by nuclear fission — the ...

So why not the atomic bomb? Nazi Germany ... end of the year the physicist Werner Heisenberg had calculated that nuclear fission chain reactions might be possible. When slowed down and controlled ...

referred to at the time as ‘piles,’ had been built as part of the British post-war atomic bomb project. Given the history of ...

The plan to build an atomic bomb wasn't as far-fetched as ... that plutonium would be acquired through the fission of Swedish uranium in Swedish nuclear reactors with heavy water.

Radioactive iodine, which has now been shown to be effective in curing disease, is a by-product of nuclear chain-reacting "piles," used to manufacture the materials for atomic bombs. There are ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that there was nothing unusual in a planned exercise involving the practice ...

The Atomic Museum in Las Vegas explains to visitors that Nevada and other states also played a role — for better or worse — ...

The head of the United Nations’ atomic watchdog has traveled to Iran where his agency faces increasing difficulty in ...

As the United States thinks through how to promote stability in the Middle East, both during and after the war in Gaza, the ...