Atomic Bomb

After the Bomb

Here's the Difference Between a Hydrogen Bomb and an Atom Bomb

By Jeffrey Kluger

What the First H-Bomb Test Looked Like

By Merrill Fabry

Anatomy of an A-Bomb Test, 1946

By Ben Cosgrove
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Figures in a Wasteland: Mother and Child, Hiroshima, 1945

Alfred Eisenstaedt's picture of a mother and child in the wasteland of 1945 Hiroshima is not a political or a philosophical or an ideological photograph. It simply, quietly commands us to pay attention.

By Ben Cosgrove

This Is How TIME Explained the Atomic Bomb in 1945

Looking back at TIME's coverage of the atomic bombings

By Aleksandra Gjorgievska

The War After D-Day: Deeper Into Hell

Photos from Saipan, Bastogne, Iwo Jima, Berlin, Nagasaki: places where the war did not stop when Operation Overlord ended

By Ben Cosgrove

After Hiroshima: Portraits of Survivors

LIFE.com presents photographs -- most of them never published in LIFE magazine -- taken in Hiroshima after the end of the Second World War.

By Ben Cosgrove

Nuclear Fusion Just Got a Little Closer to Becoming a Reality

Atomic fusion could produce limitless energy—but scientists haven't been able to harness it. But a novel experiment suggests it could be achievable

By Michael D. Lemonick

Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945

Rare, once-classified U.S. government photographs of the aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima make up a new exhibit at the International Center of Photography called Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945. These post-apocalyptic pictures had a profound effect on civil defense architecture during the Cold War, but only now can their historical significance, emotional power, and tragic beauty be appreciated.

By Neil Harris
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