In 1947, Kix cereal ran a promotion for an "Atomic Bomb Ring" that contained radioactive polonium-210, one of the deadliest ...

Toys in cereal boxes aren't very common today, but they used to be the best part of every box. Ever wonder how much those ...

On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time, humanity entered the nuclear age with a blinding flash of light in the New ...

This month marks the 70th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, written in the wake of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, when the U.S. and Soviet Union were racing to ...

Amidst the dark waters of Guadalcanal in World War 2, the USS Helena’s silhouette was illuminated by the occasional flare of distant explosions. The Pacific theater had become an increasingly ...

I was standing at Trinity, ground zero, where the first atomic bomb exploded at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. Seismographs in Tucson detected the explosion from 280 miles away.

In this episode of History Seekers, we set out in search of old silver coins and rings, but what we uncovered was far more intense. Alongside silver jewelry and colonial-era copper coins, we ...

Dozens of times a year, Rebun Kayo takes a ferry to a small island across from the port of Hiroshima in search of the remains of those killed by the atomic bomb 80 years ago. For the 47-year-old ...

NINOSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -Dozens of times a year, Rebun Kayo takes a ferry to a small island across from the port of Hiroshima in search of the remains of those killed by the atomic bomb 80 ...

It's in your teeth. Your eyes and your brain too. Scientists call it the "bomb spike" (or "bomb pulse") – and for more than half a century its signature has been present inside the human body.