Charles Oppenheimer knows his family name comes with a heavy responsibility. He's the grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who led the Manhattan Project, becoming the father of the atomic ...

Here’s how a nuclear bomb actually works. The B61 and the B83 nuclear bombs currently in the United States’ arsenal are thermonuclear, or hydrogen bombs, and quite different than the fission weapons ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Michigan State Police bomb squad safely disposed of a grenade after one was found in a vehicle outside of the MSP facility in Flint. The grenade was found on Saturday.

(Corrections & Clarifications: This story previously misstated how far nuclear fallout from the government's atomic tests reached. Fallout from the initial Trinity Test reached 46 of the 48 contiguous ...

Japanese men carry a victim of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki in this August 1945 file photo by Japanese photographer Yosuke Yamahata. via REUTERS Eighty years ago, in one of the most consequential ...

LEBANON — A World War II-era hand grenade was recently found in an area home, prompting the response of the Butler County Sheriff’s Office Bomb Squad. “The grenade, identified as a MK1 and appearing ...

A large U.S.-made bomb left over from World War II was defused on Saturday after it was discovered at a construction site, police said. Thousands of people were evacuated from their homes after a ...