He tracked down the photographer and interviewed former showgirls who confirmed Miss Atomic Bomb’s stage name. But the woman’s real name still eluded him.

Einstein never worked directly on developing the world’s first atomic bomb for the United States, but its shadow loomed over ...

After World War II, atomic age design picked up where Streamline Moderne left off, according to Alessandra Wood, PhD, design historian and author of Designed to Sell: The Evolution of Modern ...

Though the Atomic Age was born under the stands of the University of Chicago’s football stadium on Dec. 2, 1942, that milestone wasn’t reported in the next morning’s Tribune, or any other ...

Atomic bombs today are more than 25 times as powerful as the weapons with which the atomic age dawned, while hydrogen weapons are in the ranges of millions of tons of TNT equivalent.

The realities of the nuclear age were new to everyone then: scary and somewhat secret, even to adults. At that age, I believed that adults knew everything; but about atomic stuff they were as much ...

Seventy-five years ago today, on Aug. 6, 1945, the world erupted into a new era. A single B-29 Superfortress airplane, nicknamed Enola Gay, dropped a new kind of weapon—an atomic bomb—on the ...

No trace remains today of Stagg Field, the old football stadium at the University of Chicago where, 50 years ago Wednesday, the atomic age was born. What stands now on the site, on Ellis Avenue ...