The blinding burst of light from a nuclear detonation follows, yet it quickly fades into an unexpectedly small mushroom cloud ...

The 'clean bomb' myth The French government at the time knowingly ... No Apology from France France did not cease its nuclear testing program until 1996, following intense domestic and international ...

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With New Mexico being the birthplace of the atomic bomb, it only makes sense that our state’s national labs are also ...

The photos, he says, are part scientific study and part propaganda, a measure of America’s technological progress and the power of its arsenal. They are also, in a way the Pentagon likely never ...

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Over 35 attendees came to listen to North Central Texas College History Professor Charles Adams’ lecture on the making of the atomic bomb and its usage Wednesday, the first open-to-the-public lecture ...

After discussing the emergence of nuclear physics, Close goes on to talk about the Allies’ development of the nuclear bomb. A ...

A bright, blinding light flashed above New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. The thunderous roar that followed jolted 14-year-old Jess Gililland awake on the porch of ...