The NNSA has recently given the public a rare glimpse into one of the secret nuclear labs where America used to test its ...

the nuclear bomb blast simulator from Outrider, a nonprofit foundation that supports multimedia reporting on climate and nuclear threats, illustrates what an attack could look like. The simulator ...

Shigemoto was fifteen years old when a United States B-29 bomber, named the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb, code-named “Little Boy,” over his city of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Little Boy ...

Less than a month later, on August 6, 1945, the US dropped a five-ton atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The blast killed 80,000 people immediately and leveled four square miles of the ...

August 6, 1945. Aftermath of the August 6, 1945 Atomic Bomb blast in Hiroshima, 1946. Library of Congress America asks that you take immediate heed of what we say on this leaflet. We are in ...

In the 1950s the American public accepted above-ground nuclear bomb blasts just 65 miles from an American city as part of the ongoing Cold War effort. The tests became a tourist attraction for ...

Generals calculated the new atomic weapons would strike a ... Three days after the Hiroshima blast, the "Fat Man" plutonium bomb was dropped on Nagasaki killing around 50,000.

The warplane-dropped nuclear gravity bomb known as the B61 has been fully ... That bomb could also be used to blast hardened targets in underground bunkers or facilities. But the bomb will not ...

The recorded death tolls are estimates, but it is thought that about 140,000 of Hiroshima's 350,000 population were killed in the blast ... Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

Chieko Watanabe, who died at age 64, in 1993, was paralyzed in the atomic bomb blast when she was 16. She was working in a factory where she was mobilized for the war effort as a student ...

Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. U2's new album How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb debuts on a trio of charts in the U.K. this week, ... [+] just after How to ...