Moomins and the Great Flood, which was published in 1945, sees Moomintroll and his mother searching for Moominpappa, who was washed away in a storm along with their house. Their quest takes them ...

Here’s a look at the International Atomic Energy Agency and nuclear power. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspects nuclear and related facilities under safeguard agreements. Most ...

The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki cost at least 200,000 lives but almost certainly saved many millions more and brought ...

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J. Robert Oppenheimer was born in New York in 1904. He was the son of first-generation Jewish immigrants who came to America ...

Chinese researchers have successfully detonated a hydrogen-based explosive device in a controlled field test, triggering devastating chemical chain reactions without using any nuclear materials ...

A nuclear war would mean that five of the eight billion on Earth are likely to die in the first 72 minutes. That's according to nuclear war expert and investigative journalist, Annie Jacobsen, who ...

Military and nuclear experts say that even with massive firepower, a strike would probably only temporarily set back a program the West says aims to eventually produce a nuclear bomb, although ...

The guards were attacked with hot oil and homemade weapons at the jail in County Durham on Saturday 12 April by Manchester bomb plotter Hashem Abedi. Four prison officers were injured during the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A national memorial hall in Japan for victims of the atomic bomb plans to hold its annual ... the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The hall says the exhibition this year is ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A UNESCO committee on Thursday did not list a collection of photos and videos depicting the devastation in Hiroshima after the August 1945 atomic bombing on the UNESCO ...