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From exploding rats to paper balloon bombs, see the most bizarre weapons ever used in battle during World War 2.

The United States conducted 1,054 atomic tests—costing more than $100 billion and taking an incalculable toll on humans and the environment.

We speak to James Walther, who has been director of the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in the US since 1996.

August 6 and 9 mark 77 years since the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

Able Archer was a 1983 NATO military exercise that nearly ended in nuclear war

Heres a look at the most powerful nuclear weapons ever detonated — specifically explosions that exceeded 10 megatons.

Uranium is a naturally radioactive element. It powers nuclear reactors and atomic bombs.

Groundbreaking director Christopher Nolan is returning to the backdrop of WWII with his...

Oak Ridge TN was crucial in the development of the nuclear bomb during WWII. HowStuffWorks goes into the secret city.

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Editor’s note: The Journal continues “What’s in a Name?,” a twice a month column in which staff writer Elaine Briseño will give a short history of how places in New Mexico got their names. The main gate at Los Alamos National Laboratory during the atomic bomb era. (Cour...