It is the first time the president has addressed nuclear weapons, but he didn’t deny US could use ‘mother of all bombs’.

During the late 1970s, the United States developed a nuclear weapon designed not to flatten cities but to kill the people inside them. The neutron bomb, formally known as an enhanced radiation weapon, ...

How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic bomb? The truth is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have ...

Trump talked about the U.S. considering using the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), nicknamed the "mother of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Jul 16, 2025, 10:38am EDT Jul 16, 2025, 12:02pm EDT The mushroom ...

At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the course of World War II and the history of Japan changed when the US military dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Now, on the 81 st anniversary of the bombing, an ...

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 ...

This piece is part of an On Leadership special feature exploring the present-day Iran tensions in the context of leadership lessons from crises confronted by Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy.

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As a film manufacturer, Kodak’s role in America’s development of the atom bomb might seem unlikely. But this new book tells the story of how film manufacturers on both sides in WWII became integral to ...