The huge bomb was detonated on 30 October 1961 off the coast of Severny Island near the Arctic Ocean and was called the Tsar ...

Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the B-29 (Enola Gay) that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, requested no funeral or gravesite ...

An Iowan is now the holder of the “Order of the Gray Dragon” recognizing the person with the earliest entry date into the U.S ...

Kathy Gilsinan: The book starts with two missiles out of North Korea and ends with essentially the end of the world 72 minutes later. And the subtitle calls this “a scenario.” Is it a realistic ...

Atomic bombs rely on nuclear fission — the splitting ... The bomb created a massive fireball about six miles in diameter and ...

The pyrocumulus, or firestorm-cloud, that engulfed the city of Hiroshima after the US atomic bomb ... [+] attack on 6th August 1945. The fire reached its peak intensity around three hours after ...

After the April 22, 1952, televised broadcast of the bomb, atomic culture swept the nation, and Las Vegas became the epicenter of the craze. The mushroom cloud associated with the bomb became an ...

The visual documents related to the Hiroshima atomic bombing were ... rising in the distance and a huge cloud of red and black. About two minutes after the bomb exploded, Yamada became the first ...

In 1957, Miss Atomic Bomb was crowned. Although there wasn’t a formal beauty pageant, Lee Merlin, a showgirl at the Sands casino, posed for an iconic photo with a cotton mushroom cloud pinned to ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1 ... shock wave it was difficult to stand on one's feet. A cloud of dust rose to a height of eight kilometers (five ...

The crew of the Enola Gay watch the rising mushroom cloud, the city below now transformed ... For the men who developed the atomic bomb and masterminded the mission, their families and the rest ...

No charge. Today is the 73rd anniversary of the second and last time nuclear weapons were used on Earth: America’s dropping of the second atomic bomb on Japan, on the city of Nagasaki.