That new language is the language of atomic warfare. The atomic age has moved forward at such a pace that every citizen of the world should have some comprehension, at least in comparative terms ...

The atomic age has already produced a wide number of nuclear exclusion zones dangerous to humans and depopulated. These include Pacific atolls vaporized in mile-high explosions. Test sites in ...

It’s not quite what was promised in the ’50s, but it is nevertheless a genuine appliance for the Atomic Age. At its heart is not a 1950s-style fission reactor though, but a tritium tube.

From mad scientists to unintended mutations, nuclear monsters were the darlings of horror in the atomic age. And it makes sense. After all, America was deep in the heart of the Cold War scare ...

At Lake Success last week, forlornly huddled at one end of a vast committee room, the Atomic Energy Commission held its first meeting since September. It set up a control committee to go ahead ...

The Atomic Age introduced a whole new level of paranoia to the world. Whether it was the threat of nuclear war replete with atomic bombs wiping out civilization or worry about nuclear power ...

On July 16, 1945, at exactly 5:29:45 a.m., the world entered the atomic age, with the successful testing of the most powerful weapon known to man. "Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot ...

Their work to achieve the first nuclear reaction in 1942 marked the start of the Atomic Age, and it would change everything—from energy to medicine to the geopolitical landscape. In the 1930s, ...

Nicknamed “Chicago Pile-1,” the world’s first nuclear reactor kicked off the Atomic Age and has a complicated legacy, including the rise of both nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. As physicists came ...