Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb? Oppenheimer’s name has become “a metaphor for mass death beneath a mushroom cloud,” in the words of Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin ...
The people who were unlucky enough to be in Hiroshima’s zone of total destruction on Aug. 6 never saw the mushroom cloud ...
The world’s largest atomic bomb was exploded by the Russians north of the Arctic Circle in 1961. It was equivalent to 2,500 Hiroshima A-bombs. The fireball was 5 miles in diameter and could ...
the Line fire had already released more energy into the atmosphere than a dozen atomic bombs. And just as nuclear blasts ...
An atomic mushroom cloud in the distance, with the Las Vegas Club and the Pioneer Club in the foreground, June 1957. And a photo of “Miss Atomic Bomb” from May 24, 1957, the most-published Las ...
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 ...
She was 14 when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped. Her home was about 2 kilometers away from the hypocenter. Mushroom cloud above Hiroshima City Fukui said her house collapsed soon after ...