One year old last week, the Atomic Age was offered, as one of its birthday presents, Atomic Power!, the first moving picture to portray it not as cloak-&-Geiger-counter melodrama but as deadly serious ...

Nuclear reactors were originally designed to make bombs. They still do, in what are called dual-use reactors. These produce plutonium while simultaneously generating electricity. Chernobyl was a ...

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The promise — and peril — of the power of the atom cast long shadows over Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania. TribLive News Editor Jon Silver talks about Pittsburgh’s ties to the Atomic Age and J. Robert ...

There are stories that bring the personalities of the gifted scientists who drove the birth of the atomic age to life, ...

The story of the Atomic Age’s start is a fascinating one about the power of invention and a chilling one about its consequences. In “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and ...

Last week brought a gleam in the darkness, a first soft glow in the terrifying gloom which seven months before, after the blinding flash over Hiroshima, had engulfed the world. Perhaps there was a ...

As our (mostly) beloved publicist graduates from this communication platform, Sylvania and Crater will be taking a nice spa break over the holidays to recover their strength (and dignity). However, ...

The usage of atomic bombs on August 6 and August 9, 1945 would change world history in a fundamental way, and within months these changes would begin to seep into the fabric of our culture.

We finally know the true identity of the woman behind the iconic “Miss Atomic Bomb” photo. After 25 years of investigation, the Atomic Museum said in a news release that founding museum member Robert ...

A former supermodel drafted as a soldier and a seasoned military dog explore the lunar territories during an alternate future where the Space Race never ended in “Atomic Age Adventures.” Sela Margalit ...