In 1949, the Soviet Union’s first atomic bomb exploded in Semipalatinsk — but this wasn't just an empty desert. People lived nearby, and for decades they were exposed to radiation from hundreds of ...

A massive explosion occurred at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake last Friday, December 12, not from a golf shot, but from the controlled detonation of World War II ordnance. “We’ve been ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok -- On April 19, 1995, a bomb exploded in front of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. It was the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil until the ...

Nine miles out at sea when an atomic bomb ignited at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, 19-year-old Frank G. Buzzelli watched as the mushroom cloud swelled above the tiny island's lagoon.