The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

He says: 'It was an atomic bomb that was supposed to ... took place on January 15, 1965, when the Soviet Union tested a ...

Multiple scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project provided critical information about U.S. atomic bomb research to the ...

Since the United States and Great Britain have the secret of the atomic bomb and the Soviet Union does not, they should invite the Soviet Union to prepare and present the first draft of a ...

Even before the Soviet Union tested its first atomic weapon in 1949, American security officials began secret studies of the threat from a smuggled bomb. This early assessment by the Central ...

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo ... to be developed by the United States and its former ally the Soviet Union. The competition between the ideologically different nations led ...

Stanley Kubrick's Cold War satire 'Dr. Strangelove' is one of a kind. A movie that takes nuclear apocalypse and makes it ...

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

The development of the bomb cost billions of dollars, and American leaders wanted to justify the expense. They wanted to ...

after atomic weapons had been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Soviet Union had declared war on Japan. But what if Japan hadn’t surrendered? What if the A-bomb hadn’t been invented ...

It’s one thing to debate whether the Allied bombing campaigns were justifiable. It’s another to suggest that evil regimes ...

After Oppenheimer’s Oscars success, delve into the story of the atomic bomb. Told by the scientists and spies who changed history. The race to beat the Nazis and stolen secrets. Show more After ...