During one very unusual Cold War drill, a Soviet Su-7 Fitter attack jet delivered a live tactical nuclear weapon in an end-to ...
Watch how the first atomic bomb test unfolded, as scientists pushed the limits of physics in a race to end the war. Behind ...
Key Points and Summary - The U.S. military has suffered dozens of “Broken Arrow” nuclear weapons accidents—events involving lost weapons, accidental releases, or other serious mishaps. -Most were ...
Officials are preparing to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park ...
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, the world saw the nuclear age come into being ...
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/how-press-reported-atomic-bomb/ The New York Times proudly touted its exclusive coverage of the atomic bomb ...
Tsutomu Yamaguchi is known to be the sole individual recognised to have survived both atomic attacks in Japan during the ...
Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...
Ty Bannerman will read from and sign copies of “Nuclear Family: a memoir of the atomic west” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, as part of the Bad Mouth Reading Series at the q-Staff Theatre, 400 Broadway ...
A massive explosion occurred at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake last Friday, December 12, not from a golf shot, but from the controlled detonation of World War II ordnance. “We’ve been ...
A visitor uses a smartphone to photograph a life-size cutaway model of "Fat Man," the plutonium-type atomic bomb, at the ...