The ship that delivered the atomic bomb was sunk, and nobody came to look for it

On August 6, 1945, the atomic mission against Hiroshima began. The primary strike aircraft was the B-29 Enola Gay, piloted by ...

World War III? What an atomic bomb detonation in New York’s financial district would look like: detailed simulation

It’s a question that’s haunted scientists, governments, and anyone who’s ever watched a disaster movie set in Manhattan. Now, ...

1000 times more powerful than Hiroshima: What really happened in Tunguska in 1908

A tremendous explosion rocked the Tunguska region in Siberia in the early morning hours of June 30, 1908. The Tunguska ...
PBS

How the Press Reported on the Atomic Bomb

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/how-press-reported-atomic-bomb/ The New York Times proudly touted its exclusive coverage of the atomic bomb ...
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The unbelievable story of Project A119: America's plan to bomb the moon

The Ambitious Project In 1958, a group of ten scientists was assembled by the United States Air Force in Chicago to explore the implications of detonating a nuclear bomb on the moon's surface. This ...
Albuquerque Journal

Fascinating and multifaceted: 'Nuclear Family' tells the story of nuclear weapons and Los Alamos as told through one family

Ty Bannerman will read from and sign copies of “Nuclear Family: a memoir of the atomic west” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, as part of the Bad Mouth Reading Series at the q-Staff Theatre, 400 Broadway ...