Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still lives mere yards from where hundreds died, on the surface of a statue of a ...

Just how bad would it be if someone were to drop an atomic bomb on Washington DC, and how many people would die? The answers are unsurprisingly terrifying.

The Trinity test wasn’t conducted on barren, uninhabited land. Half a million people lived within 150 miles of the explosion, some as close as 12 miles away. Eric S. Singer July 16 is the 80th ...