Authorities are now saying the explosive devices used in the Boston attack were fashioned from pressure cookers. Yes, like the kitchen pot you might use to cook rice at home. As it happens, pressure ...

Tick. Tick. Tick. Eighty years ago this month, the doomsday clock jolted to life. Nothing was the same after Aug. 6, 1945. On that date, the first of two American atomic bombs went off in Hiroshima, ...

The shadow of Hiroshima and Nagasaki looms large over the brutal final months of the Second World War. An estimated 200,000 died after the US dropped two atomic bombs over three days, and less than a ...