A minute of silence was observed Saturday in Nagasaki, precisely at the time of the atomic bomb explosion dropped by a US bomber on the Japanese city 80 years ago, while the restored bell tower of the ...
Manhattan Project scientists working on the Thin Man plutonium gun assembly. Two atomic bombs nicknamed Little Boy and Fat Man were detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, effectively ...
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. “I’m not sure if it was the effect of the atomic bomb, but I have always had a weak body, and when I was born, the ...
As many as 19 people are missing and feared dead after a “devastating blast” leveled a Tennessee bomb factory Friday, according to officials. The massive explosion was reported around 7:45 a.m. local ...
GOMA, Congo — A bomb explosion killed more than 30 people and wounded 20 others in eastern Congo following a dispute between the Congolese army and a pro-government militia, despite a deal signed in ...
Nuclear testing wasn’t all that went underground in the 1950s in Las Vegas. The identity of the woman in the Atomic Age’s most iconic photograph was also buried. On May 24, 1957, a Sands Copa Room ...