The plutonium bomb—nicknamed the Gadget—was set atop this hundred-foot steel tower, which vaporized in the explosion. "From the Trinity test,” a 2010 Centers for Disease Control and ...

The first nuclear explosion was of a plutonium implosion ... and the second triggered three days later by a plutonium bomb that shattered Nagasaki. More than 150,000 people were killed in the ...

a plutonium bomb with a yield of 23 kilotons on July 1, 1946. It exploded 520 feet above the target fleet. The explosion only sank five ships while others were riddled with topside damage from the ...

India nuclear weapons: The chances of a full-scale India-Pakistan war have increased exponentially after the brutal Pahalgam terror attack on April 22 last month, and ...

A pivotal scene in the explosive hit biopic and Best Picture winner, "Oppenheimer," involves America's top scientists discussing whether or not to develop an even more potent nuclear weapon ...

Richard Garwin, who died on May 13, 2025, at the age of 97, was sometimes called“the most influential scientist you've never heard of .” He got his P ...

New Delhi's secret bomb development program officially ... weapons components needed to create a nuclear explosion from the reprocessed plutonium. The country's first nuclear test, code-named ...

Japanese civilians were neither fascists nor communists nor anti-semites nor anti-hamites nor anyone else 'deserving' of immolation. Their government was however guilty of good old-fashioned ...

Mountain interiors with their consistent temperature and humidity also provide suitable environmental conditions for preserving the conventional high explosives (used to compress the fissile material) ...

Impossible - The Final Reckoning is now playing in theaters worldwide and we took the time to write up a list of all the ...

A B-52 with two nuclear bombs crashed in North Carolina in 1961. Recovery crews were unable to find the weapon component ...