President Charles de Gaulle described the French atomic bomb as 'green and very ... drifted across vast parts of the South Pacific — even reaching the main island of Tahiti, more than 1,000 kilometers ...
The wreckage of the USS Nevada, a battleship that survived World War I, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the atomic bomb tests, was found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. According to underwater ...
The Truk Atoll, now known as the Chuuk Lagoon, lies about 900 miles northeast of the main island of Papua New Guinea and 3,500 miles southeast of Hawaii. Japan used the atoll to help double its ...
On Aug. 6, 1945, a 19-year-old U.S. sailor was serving aboard the aircraft carrier Hollandia about 500 miles off the coast of Japan when he learned the U.S. had just obliterated Hiroshima with a new ...
This journal was kept by Leonard P. Schultz during his work for Operation Crossroads, Marshall Islands, 1946. Schultz participated in surveying fauna before and after the atomic bomb tests. The ...
Japan's atomic bomb survivors declared that nuclear weapons cannot coexist with humans, as they gathered in Hiroshima to ...
The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.
The U.S. scientists who tested the first atomic bomb, July 16, 1945, took the ultimate gamble of setting the atmosphere on fire and destroying all life on Earth. Even after the renowned physicist Hans ...
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