A Village Voice essay looks at Mario Puzo's first novel, "The Dark Arena" (1955), which gazes unflinchingly into the abyss of the Holocaust.

In the dim light of the lab, friends, family, and strangers watched the image of a pianist playing for them, the pianist's ...

The A-Bomb wasn't just tested by the U.S., as it was infamously used twice against an enemy combatant — the only times to ...

Tsutomu Yamaguchi's story is the subject of author Charles Pellegrino's new book "Ghosts of Hiroshima," which is due to hit ...

The mayor of Nagasaki said the city will invite representatives of ‘all countries’ and regions to this year's atomic bombing ...

World’s first atomic bomb: J. Robert Oppenheimer was born in New York in 1904. He was the son of first-generation Jewish immigrants who came to America from Germany. By the age of 9, he had read ...

But do you know how much a nuclear bomb actually costs? To recall, during World War II, the United States dropped two atomic bombs named “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” on the Japanese cities ...

A lab experiment has successfully demonstrated the black hole bomb effect, a theory first proposed more than 50 years ago.

In 1972, physicists named William Press and Saul Teukolsky described a theoretical phenomenon called the “black hole bomb,” ...