Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban ...

By Nicholas Slayton Posted on Feb 10, 2025 During the height of the Cold War, the U.S. military and atomic scientists decided to fire some nuclear rockets into space. The goal wasn’t to see how ...

If the bomb detonated at or near ground level, a towering mushroom cloud would form, sucking up soil, steel, concrete, and ...

Hiroshima survivor and Nihon Hidankyo assistant secretary general Jiro Hamasumi won't rest until there are zero nuclear ...

A Cold War nuclear bunker could be turned into a tourist attraction after it was bought at auction for more than double the guide price. The 1958 Royal Observer Corps monitoring post in the ...

A nuclear bunker built in the 1950s as a result of Cold War tensions has ... government from an atomic bomb. But has been left vacant since the 1980s. The war room and bunker will be now sold ...

A dramatic silhouette and reputation for British engineering excellence long made the Avro Vulcan bomber a favourite at ...

This week countries and communities converge in New York for the 3rd Meeting of State Parties on the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), with multiple side events to address the ...

The fascinating Wonderland factual TV series returns to Sky Arts this Spring with an all-new four-part series, Wonderland: Science Fiction in the Atomic Age, premiering next month… Science fiction has ...

it also starts by revisiting the development of the atomic bomb, and how it shaped geopolitics across the decades that followed. “While the Cold War ended in 1991,” Netflix’s promotional ...