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On the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Jordan Dunbar hears from the only people to have ever ...
The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were ...
On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time, humanity entered the nuclear age with a blinding flash of light in the New ...
Alamogordo. The test marked a significant turning point in World War II that left impacts across New Mexico and around the world.
Brig. Gen. Leslie Groves: After arriving at the Alamogordo base camp on July 15, a brief review of the situation with Oppenheimer revealed that we might be in trouble. The bomb had been assembled and ...
More Americans are now eligible for compensation for health problems linked to radiation exposure from the atomic weapons ...
In this except from the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we hear from the people at the historic first test of the atomic ...
What happens when a comet collides with a gas giant? In July 1994, Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter in a spectacular ...
The 1980s witnessed mass demonstrations demanding a nuclear freeze. Today, the threat of nuclear war is beginning to enter ...
Real footage captured of the trinity test leaves viewers divided over the accuracy of the events depicted in Christopher ...
It is 80 years since the first nuclear weapon test – codenamed Trinity – detonated above the desert in New Mexico. Today the ...
TOKYO, Jan. 6, 2010 -- The only person officially recognized as having been twice in the bull's eye of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki has died. Tsutomu Yamaguchi, aged 93, passed away Monday.