Forbes

How The First Atom Bomb Created A New Kind Of Minerals

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Jul 16, 2025, 10:38am EDT Jul 16, 2025, 12:02pm EDT The mushroom ...
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Nazis and the Bomb

How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic bomb? The truth is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The nuclear paradox: Why the world wants both deterrence and disarmament

A landmark 24-country study reveals that a majority of people worldwide embraces both nuclear deterrence and disarmament, ...
New York Post

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 atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Now, on the 81 st anniversary of the bombing, an ...

Nazis and the bomb: nuclear archaeology finds Werner Heisenberg mistook how close he was

Using nuclear archaeology, scientists have found that the Nobel laureate may have grossly overestimated his team’s ability to ...
Yahoo

‘You and the Atom Bomb’: how George Orwell’s 1945 essay predicted the Cold War and nuclear proliferation

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. US bomber Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the same as those which dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, heading to bomb ...
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How a few clouds completely changed the atom bomb’s deadly destination

On August 6, 1945, acting on President Harry Truman’s command, the United States did the unthinkable: they dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, aiming to force Japan to surrender and bring ...
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Why it’s the British we have to thank for the atom bomb

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The First Quebec Conference, 1943: (clockwise from top left) Mr Mackenzie King, Winston Churchill, Alexander Cambridge, Earl of ...
New York Post

80 years ago, the A-bomb saved countless lives — but now we must defend against nukes

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 ...

Why Was the Third Atomic Bomb Not Dropped? [Part 1]—The Nuclear Attack Clock That Stopped on August 15 (Historical Mystery Analysis Note)

There Was a 'Next After Hiroshima and Nagasaki'August 6, 1945, Hiroshima.August 9, Nagasaki.The 'atomic bombings' by the U.S.
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In 1958, a B-47 dropped an atomic bomb on South Carolina by mistake; the core stayed aboard; two tons of explosives left a crater 70 feet wide

We are all familiar with the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945; few know about a nuclear bomb that was dropped on domestic soil purely by accident. On the afternoon of March 11, 1958, ...
Fstoppers

From Kodachrome to the Atomic Bomb: The Strange, Dark, and Untold History of Film

As a film manufacturer, Kodak’s role in America’s development of the atom bomb might seem unlikely. But this new book tells the story of how film manufacturers on both sides in WWII became integral to ...