On 29 August 1949 the Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb. The Cold War begins in earnest. In Stalin’s last years he ...

After two years on the front line of Ukraine’s war, residents of the Russian border town of Vovchansk have a generous ...

Stalin himself remarked that future wars were ... In this way, it is claimed, the atomic bomb directly caused a significant change in international relations and some historians say it led to ...

While everyone is familiar with the Enola Gay, the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb on an enemy during warfare, very few ...

SATELLITE images have exposed Iran’s terrifying efforts to carve out a secret, iron-clad nuclear site buried in the mountains ...

VLADIMIR Putin was accompanied by his dreaded nuclear briefcase as he issued a chilling threat of global war during Moscow’s ...

The secret program with the most devastating consequences was the Manhattan Project, which led to the atomic bomb. German ...

So it's an indication of the importance Stalin gave to the Soviet atomic bomb program that he appointed Beria to head it on August 7, 1945, the day after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

The chair of the Special Committee on the atomic bomb, Lavrentii Beria, arrived in the middle of August. He observed the assembly work and reported back to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

Hiroshima Atomic bomb survivor Kimie Miyamoto ... Britain’s Winston Churchill and Russia's Josef Stalin) Truman mentioned to Stalin that the United States had “a new weapon of unusual ...

The Atomic Museum in Las Vegas explains to visitors that Nevada and other states also played a role — for better or worse — in the creation of nuclear energy. By Michael Janofsky Reporting ...