The Atomic Museum in Las Vegas explains to visitors that Nevada and other states also played a role — for better or worse — ...

Across the region, high-stakes games of geopolitical brinkmanship are combining to create a perilous chain of potential ...

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Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War is a reality war documentary TV series. It revolves around the development of the ...

Rebecca Dudley, a political science professor at BYU who teaches U.S. foreign policy and talks about nuclear war in her class ...

The decades of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s had reversed human life and culture to the madness of the bomb of the Cold War, the nuclear bomb hanging over civilization and the planet, literally ...

The official US justification for the dropping of the two atomic bombs was to force the Japanese government to surrender, which it did on 14 August 1945. Some historians have speculated that the ...

But Knappenberger backs up his argument by showing how the development of nuclear weapons created the Cold War, and the two ...

At the height of the Cold War, nuclear powers possessed over 70,000 ... isn’t that Russia or another adversary would drop large bombs like those we used against Japan in 1945.

During the Cold War, structures were built across the UK ... to the bunker as the focus changed from concerns about an atomic bomb to concerns about hydrogen bombs. According to Historic England ...

An Air Force bomber accidentally dropped an atomic bomb on Mars Bluff near Florence in 1958. The site is in danger of being ...

The original cold war began after the end of the Second World ... of the Japanese at Okinawa and a decision to use the atomic bomb rather that lose more young Americans in a ground invasion.