The "mushroom cloud" in the iconic photo after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima is actually a plume of smoke from raging fires. Pictured: Children wear masks to protect themselves from ...

A black-and-white photo of a Las Vegas dancer posing in a mushroom-cloud swimsuit became iconic of America's "atomic age," but for decades her identity was unknown. The mystery has finally been solved ...

A rare photo showing the mushroom cloud from the Hiroshima atomic bombing in two distinct parts, one above the other, has been discovered in the city, a museum curator said Wednesday. The black ...

There are only a couple of other photos in existence (two, possibly three) that capture the cloud from the vantage point of the ground. And, according to the Japanese paper Asahi Shimbun ...

coming at a time when we continue to talk heatedly about the film “Oppenheimer,” reminds me of how long I showed images of the Hiroshima mushroom cloud to introduce class lectures on wartime ...

Photos of apocalyptic explosions and huge mushroom clouds being shared online ... but it in fact shows a stock image used to illustrate the story in neighbouring South Korea.

Thankfully not, but this real-life mushroom cloud ... rotating movements within a cloud. Billed as the global photographic event of the year, the Sony World Photography Awards celebrate the ...

A rare photo showing the mushroom cloud from the Hiroshima atomic bombing in two distinct parts, one above the other, has been discovered in the city, a museum curator says.

The physicist Enrico Fermi and others likened the furiously rising cloud in the New Mexico desert to a mushroom, and that became the shape now inextricably associated with nuclear explosions.