There are stories that bring the personalities of the gifted scientists who drove the birth of the atomic age to life, ...

Nuclear reactors were originally designed to make bombs. They still do, in what are called dual-use reactors. These produce plutonium while simultaneously generating electricity. Chernobyl was a ...

One year old last week, the Atomic Age was offered, as one of its birthday presents, Atomic Power!, the first moving picture to portray it not as cloak-&-Geiger-counter melodrama but as deadly serious ...

Last week brought a gleam in the darkness, a first soft glow in the terrifying gloom which seven months before, after the blinding flash over Hiroshima, had engulfed the world. Perhaps there was a ...

The promise — and peril — of the power of the atom cast long shadows over Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania. TribLive News Editor Jon Silver talks about Pittsburgh’s ties to the Atomic Age and J. Robert ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Few things are more powerful sources of nostalgia than candy. As long as it's not one of the sadly discontinued candies we wish would come ...

The Northern Miner’s 1951 coverage of Eldorado’s expansion at Beaverlodge — reprinted below — captured a country at the ...

We finally know the true identity of the woman behind the iconic “Miss Atomic Bomb” photo. After 25 years of investigation, the Atomic Museum said in a news release that founding museum member Robert ...

The usage of atomic bombs on August 6 and August 9, 1945 would change world history in a fundamental way, and within months these changes would begin to seep into the fabric of our culture.

A former supermodel drafted as a soldier and a seasoned military dog explore the lunar territories during an alternate future where the Space Race never ended in “Atomic Age Adventures.” Sela Margalit ...

There is no doubt that in a former life, Marty McGee was George Jetson (in a cartoon alternative universe that is). The guy lives and breathes anything that has to do with modernism, the space age, ...