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Declassified Footage: An Atomic Bomb Too Big to Actually Use

The Tsar Bomba's explosion was unparalleled in power. With a 50 megaton capacity, this nuclear test was estimated to be 3,800 times the strength of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. And although short video ...
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Scientists reveal nuclear blast survival radius in new study

The latest scientific research on nuclear bomb survival distances offers crucial insights into the safest areas to take shelter during such an event, and the various factors that influence survival ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Truman never ordered the use of the atomic bombs—but he did order atomic bombings to be stopped

When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic bomb, there are a few obvious choices. July 16, 1945, was the date of the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, and has been used by some as ...

The military once considered using balloons as nuclear weapons systems

During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a ...
Wired

Nuclear Historian Answers Nuclear War Questions

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...
NPR

As arms race in Asia intensifies, a-bomb survivors make final plea for peace

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 ...
Interesting Engineering

How nuclear propulsion shaped early interstellar vehicle design

The Space Age framed nuclear propulsion as a quiet rethinking of movement, distance, and endurance beyond Earth.
Forbes

Las Vegas Atomic Museum Makes Case For Nuclear Weapons

A 110-degree day in Las Vegas, a city dedicated to entertainment and capitalism, seems a strange place to commemorate the 80 th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Yet Las Vegas has its ...
PBS

Nagasaki marks 80 years since U.S. atomic bombing as survivors place hopes of nuclear ban in hands of youth

NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) — The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that killed tens of thousands and left survivors who hope their harrowing ...
HUB

Fallout: Eighty years later

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...
Science News

If another country tested nuclear weapons, here’s how we’d know

President Donald Trump has called for the United States to test its nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades. But Trump’s statements about testing — in particular, whether other nations are ...