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How hydrogen bombs work and why they were created after WWII despite being more powerful than atomic...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe first hydrogen bomb test, as part of Operation Ivy, detonated over the Marshall Islands in...
Albert Einstein wrote to the US pleading with the government to build an atomic bomb 80 years ago....
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA composite image showing Albert Einstein around 1939 and nuclear explosion in French Polynesia in...
Pentagon Papers leaker weighed morality of A-bomb at Cranbrook, months before Hiroshima
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 11 months agoMonths before the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and revealed to the world the existence...
Oppenheimer went into a deep depression after reading about the effects of the atomic bomb on Japan...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 months agoJ. Robert Oppenheimer in 1950.Corbis/Getty Images J. Robert Oppenheimer "plunged into a deep...
Last survivors of Hiroshima bombing watch as Biden pays tribute, but issues no apology
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJapanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and President Biden pause after laying a wreath at the...
Opinion: 'Oppenheimer' is here. Is Hollywood still afraid of the truth about the atomic bomb?
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 11 months agoChristopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" joins a relatively short list of studio productions that tackle...
On This Day, Aug. 8: Nixon announces resignation on TV
United Press International via Yahoo News· 11 months agoPresident Richard Nixon resigns from the office of the president August 8, 1974, following his role...
Atomic veterans were sworn to secrecy for years. Now they're getting recognized
Worcester Telegram & Gazette via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIn the 1950s and early 1960s, the Pentagon conducted numerous nuclear bomb detonations in the...
The Black scientists behind the Manhattan Project, the atomic bomb program that inspired the movie...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 months agoWilliam Jacob Knox, Jr., Samuel Proctor Massie, and Carolyn Parker were among the handful of Black...
Lindsey Graham wants more bombs for Israel, saying the US was right to nuke Nagasaki and Hiroshima
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 month agoSen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Sen. Lindsey Graham hailed the bombings...