How a few clouds completely changed the atom bomb’s deadly destination

When Weather Became Destiny: Hiroshima’s Clear Skies On August 6, 1945, acting on President Harry Truman’s command, the ...

The atomic bomb, a world-changing invention, inflicted suffering and launched the nuclear age

The printing press, the lightbulb, the internal combustion engine and the computer moved the world into a mostly better ...
The New Yorker

The Atomic Bombs’ Forgotten Korean Victims

Tanaka Terumi was thirteen years old when the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, in August, 1945. The blast knocked him unconscious. After he came to, he and his mother walked ...

Can A Nuclear Reactor Explode Like An Atomic Bomb?

Nuclear reactors and atomic bombs both rely on nuclear fission, but does that mean that a reactor could turn into an atomic ...
Newsweek

The Atomic Bomb

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. THE FIRST NUCLEAR reactor on earth went critical 2 billion years ago ...
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How Switzerland became the nuclear bomb shelter capital of the world

Switzerland is home to over 370,000 nuclear bomb shelters. The historically neutral nation guarantees each of its 9 million citizens a spot in case of an emergency.

Scientists Found a Strange New Material Born in the Fireball of the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb

Locked inside glassy fallout particles, the strange alloy could only form in a nuclear blast.

Recently discovered eyewitness account of Hiroshima atom bomb published, detailing horror and desperation of survivors

At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the course of World War II and the history of Japan changed when the US military dropped the ...