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Descendants of atomic bomb plane crewman and double survivor team up to abolish nuclear weapons

When the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, Ari Beser’s grandfather was onboard both of the ...
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Nichols: 'The atomic bomb did not win the war; it ended it'

Nichols: “The most important military effect was that it required only two atomic bombs to end the war. The Planned invasion ...
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83-year-old atomic bomb survivor warns world is in 'most dangerous era'

An 83-year-old Hiroshima atomic bombing survivor, Toshiyuki Mimaki, has voiced a grave concern regarding global safety. At just three years old during the catastrophic event 80 years ago, Mimaki, now ...

The History and Physics of the Atomic Bomb

First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective ...

Here’s how big our nuclear arsenal is 80 years after the first atomic bomb

The first series of thermonuclear tests took place on Nov. 1, 1952, on the small Pacific island of Elugelab at Enewetak Atoll ...

'If we lose, we'll be tried as war criminals.' America's controversial path to the atomic bomb

At the outset of the Second World War President Franklin D. Roosevelt implored the belligerents to avoid civilian casualties ...

Today in Chicago History: City’s role in development of atomic bomb revealed

Vintage Chicago Tribune: The Atomic Age is born at the University of Chicago’s football stadium “Five thousand scientists, ...

Book Review: ‘The Devil Reached Toward the Sky’ weaves thorough account of Atomic Age’s start

An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb” tells the story of the atomic bomb and its consequences.