Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo ... On July 16, the bomb was detonated, producing an intense flash of light seen by observers in bunkers 10 km away and a fireball that expanded ...

This flash would burn brighter than the midday ... or open to interpretation. A single atomic bomb, detonated at the right location in Lower Manhattan, would effectively end New York City as ...

These atomic-grade mishaps can involve ... so the crew jettisoned the plane’s Mark 4 nuclear bomb over the Pacific. The crew witnessed a flash, a bang, and a sound wave. The military claims ...

"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...

she wrote in her booklet, describing the blinding flash followed by a blast that ... She compiled four atomic bomb poems and the story of her experience of surviving the bombing, which she had ...

Many tourists packed "atomic box lunches" and had picnics ... Beginning at midnight, guests would drink and sing until the flash of the bomb lit up the night sky. One Bomb Every Three Weeks ...

When he was about to sew the button back on with needle and thread, a flash of light suddenly appeared ... to the effects of radiation from the atomic bomb. Kenji Hayashida, 85, has been ...

An curved arrow pointing right. North Korea recently claimed to test a hydrogen bomb. Some experts say it is more likely they tested a "boosted" atomic bomb. Although this type of bomb isn't ...

I saw a blueish white flash all around me ... where his job was to test ignition switches for the atomic bomb “Fat Man”, which was later used on Nagasaki. Bederson, now 95, said he ...

In a blinding flash, and with temperatures as hot as the ... Three days later the second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki and Japan surrendered, bringing World War II to an end.