The first hit Hiroshima on August 6 ... but decided to drop the bomb on Nagasaki after cloud cover over Kokura blocked the pilots' vision. Nearly 40,000 people died instantly in Nagasaki, while ...

A trove of over 1,500 photographs taken in the months following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has been nominated for inclusion in UNESCO’s Memory of the World register. The education ministry ...

The world’s largest atomic bomb was exploded by the Russians north of the Arctic Circle in 1961. It was equivalent to 2,500 Hiroshima A-bombs. The fireball was 5 miles in diameter and could ...

For the last ten years, Astronomer Tsuneo Saeki of the Osaka observatory (90 miles from Hiroshima) has been keeping an eye on Mars. About 4 a.m. on Jan. 16, he saw a great grey cloud on the face ...

Scientists recently doubled the chances that Asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth in 2032. While earlier estimates said the ...

Fifty years before the US dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, speculation about atomic energy and its life-effacing power could be found in “The Crack of Doom,” a book by an Irish writer ...

Oppenheimer’s name has become “a metaphor for mass death beneath a mushroom cloud,” in ... Although two atomic bombs ultimately dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ...

Dr Langsdorf Jr worked on the Manhattan Project, a top-secret World War II program involving hundreds of scientists and engineers that resulted in the development of the first atomic bomb.

While other scenes arguably showcase nuclear bombs better ... gradual creation of the mushroom cloud as Krzysztof Penderecki's “Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima: plays in the background.

Huge explosion with a small mushroom cloud Huge bomb the weapon of mass destruction ... Visual Effects Element. View on the atomic bomb dome in Hiroshima Japan View on the atomic bomb dome in ...

A UFO encounter at a North Dakota nuclear site prompted an Air Force captain to defy an order of silence in his search for truth.