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

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

OMUTA, Fukuoka Prefecture--With students sporting atomic bomb hoodies and mushroom cloud symbols seen everywhere on campus, it was only a matter of time before a Japanese student at a high school ...

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 ...

When the atomic bomb was dropped on the city on August 9th, 1945, they were far enough away to survive the blast, but close enough to see the mushroom cloud. Their stories are rarely told ...

Here's how the H-bomb contains such massive power. Atomic bombs rely on nuclear fission ... fireball about six miles in ...

The bomb components came in one end and the completed ... A cloud of dust rose to a height of eight kilometers (five miles). The top of the atomic mushroom reached a height of twelve kilometers ...

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 ...

In order to build an atomic bomb, the Manhattan Project first needed to prove that ... Moore said he intended to evoke images of the human skull, mushroom clouds and a cathedral. “Like anything that ...

The crew of the Enola Gay watch the rising mushroom cloud ... For the men who developed the atomic bomb and masterminded the mission, their families and the rest of the world finally know the ...

Engineering District in which first Atomic Bomb was developed ... a blinding flash lit the sky followed by a mushroom cloud 41,000 feet high. Physicist Norris Bradbury sits next to The Gadget ...