In 1946, the first peacetime nuclear tests in the Pacific signaled a turning point for humanity. As the United States ...

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 ...

This video follows the quiet meeting on Einstein’s veranda in August 1939 that set the atomic age in motion. As exiled scientists wrestled with fascism, fear, and their own pacifist convictions, their ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab was sold in the 1950s for the price of $50. It is one of the items on display as part of “At Play in the Atomic Age.” (Courtesy of the National Museum of Nuclear ...

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 ...

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 ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Atomic Age Criminal case in the cabaret stage Atomic Age, a comedic, retro-futuristic 2D point & click adventure in the shape of the 50th and 60th years ...