The First Quebec Conference, 1943: (clockwise from top left) Mr Mackenzie King, Winston Churchill, Alexander Cambridge, Earl of Athlone, and President Roosevelt - Bettmann Manhattan, Mayson, Maud. One ...
Japanese men carry a victim of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki in this August 1945 file photo by Japanese photographer Yosuke Yamahata. via REUTERS Eighty years ago, in one of the most consequential ...
The Nuclear Age will appeal to a broad audience, both newcomers to the topic and those who are conversant but not academic ...
The front page of the Parkersburg News from Aug. 15, 1945. (Archive Image) Eighty years ago last week our country did something that had never been done before or since. They exploded an “atom bomb” ...
The United States has fast-tracked production of one of the most powerful nuclear weapons in its arsenal to date, the B61-13 gravity bomb — a weapon so potent it boasts a yield 24 times more ...
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi recently sparked a fresh political controversy by warning the BJP that he would “explode a hydrogen bomb, which is bigger than the atom bomb.” Addressing a gathering, he said: ...
HIROSHIMA, Japan — Shortly before the 80 th anniversary of nuclear attack on Hiroshima early this month, several dozen elementary school students met with atomic bomb survivor and farmer Toshiyuki ...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Wednesday marks 80 years since the United States dropped its first nuclear bomb on Japan, an event that reshaped global history. Remembrance services were held in Hiroshima, where ...
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 through ...