Then there is the Hanford cleanup. Recent projections for cost and completion of the task of cleaning up radioactive and ...

Three days later, the Americans dropped a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki, killing 74,000. Prof Masao Tomonaga, an A-bomb survivor and honorary director of the Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Atomic Bomb ...

How was it possible that the nation’s plutonium factory and its largest ... I think it has something to do with popular imaginations of the bomb—how we have been trained to see nuclear weapons ...

A Japanese peace research institute discovered in March that an additional subcritical nuclear test was added to a U.S. tally ...

Special attention is paid to the Tularosa Basin downwinders, a community of people unknowingly exposed to the Trinity Test plutonium bomb explosion on July 16, 1945. Generations of multiple kinds ...

The government ordered a uranium bomb ("Little Boy") and a plutonium bomb ("Fat Man") to be built by the summer of 1945. On July 16, 1945, Oppenheimer and the scientists at Los Alamos carried out ...

Before the bomb squad removed the chemical ... tanks from the past chemical processing of irradiated uranium to remove plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program. The 580-square-mile ...

But being able to analyze precisely how the bombs worked is a different matter ... The machine, dubbed Scorpius, will provide greater insight into plutonium, the essential ingredient in detonating ...

When I was a kid we used to go to a place we just called “The Book Barn.” It was pretty descriptive, as it was just a barn ...

At the novel’s opening, only four of the commune’s original 15 inhabitants remain on Bomb Island: Fish and Whistle, whom he views as his mother, and two men he considers his fathers, Nutzo and Reef.

Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, tried to sell uranium and plutonium that he believed would be transferred to Iran to build a nuclear bomb, it is alleged. Mr Ebisawa and a Thai co-defendant were previously ...