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In 1947, Kix cereal ran a promotion for an "Atomic Bomb Ring" that contained radioactive polonium-210, one of the deadliest ...
A dawn ceremony is planned for Aug. 6, as Oak Ridge remembers the dropping of the first atomic bomb in 1945.
Toys in cereal boxes aren't very common today, but they used to be the best part of every box. Ever wonder how much those ...
On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time, humanity entered the nuclear age with a blinding flash of light in the New ...
STORY: Just a short ferry ride from Hiroshima lies the small island of Ninoshima, where the remains of those killed by the atomic bomb 80 years ago can still be found.Rebun Kayo, a researcher at ...
Amidst the dark waters of Guadalcanal in World War 2, the USS Helena’s silhouette was illuminated by the occasional flare of distant explosions. The Pacific theater had become an increasingly ...
I was standing at Trinity, ground zero, where the first atomic bomb exploded at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. Seismographs in Tucson detected the explosion from 280 miles away.
Dozens of times a year, Rebun Kayo takes a ferry to a small island across from the port of Hiroshima in search of the remains of those killed by the atomic bomb 80 years ago. Alice Rizzo reports.
Dozens of times a year, Rebun Kayo takes a ferry to a small island across from the port of Hiroshima in search of the remains of those killed by the atomic bomb 80 years ago. For the 47-year-old ...
STORY: Just a short ferry ride from Hiroshima lies the small island of Ninoshima, where the remains of those killed by the atomic bomb 80 years ago can still be found.Rebun Kayo, a researcher at ...
Another profile is of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant scientific theorist who inspired a team testing the atomic bomb at a secret research laboratory in rural New Mexico.