Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo ... hadn't created a new element at all but might have actually split the uranium atom in two -- at that point a barely imaginable event.

Sir Ernest Rutherford has been called the 'father of nuclear physics' When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech, even he could not have imagined the chain ...

in which the atoms would split apart in a process called fission, causing a huge explosion. These bombs were a type of nuclear weapon known as atomic bombs, or fission bombs. "The size of these ...

we needed to recreate Otto Hahn’s famous atom-splitting nuclear fission experiment from 1938. As we researched the complexities of performing the experiment, we were struck by a sobering thought ...

Donald Trump vexed New Zealanders on the first day of his presidency after he claimed that America split the atom – a feat achieved by Sir Ernest Rutherford from Nelson in New Zealand.

When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech, even he could not have imagined the chain reaction of online debate his boast would cause. Many of those leaping on ...