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History of nuclear power: weapons & energy

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Newsday

80 years ago the U.S. dropped A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, changing human history

The first reports were met with disbelief. A single bomb with the explosive force to level a city; a bomb, detonated with such intensity it burned as bright as — maybe, even brighter than — the sun.
PBS

'The Devil Reached Toward the Sky' documents motivation and development of the atomic bomb

The U.S. altered the course of history 80 years ago when it dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. It was an audacious move that ultimately led to the end of World War II. The motivation and secrecy ...
News Tribune

80 years after atomic bombing. Nagasaki and Tri-Cities forever linked

Tri-Cities workers produced plutonium that powered the last atomic bomb 80 years ago. Relief in Tri-Cities that war ended without further lives lost; immense suffering in Japan Peace ceremonies in ...
NPR

Eighty years after Hiroshima, a new book narrates the history of the atomic bomb

It’s been 80 years since the United States detonated atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, resulting in more than 200,000 deaths. Garrett Graff’s new book The Devil Reached Toward the Sky is an ...
Wired

The History and Physics of the Atomic Bomb

On August 6, 1945, the sky above the Japanese city of Hiroshima opened. A blinding flash, then a deafening sonic boom. An entire city pulverized in seconds. Thus began the nuclear age. Today, 80 years ...
HUB

Fallout: Eighty years later

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...
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Bockscar: We Visited the B-29 Bomber That Dropped The Atomic Bomb On Nagasaki

-On August 6, 1945, the B-29 Enola Gay dropped the "Little Boy" uranium bomb on Hiroshima, killing up to 166,000 people. [caption id="attachment_22456" align ...
KTVU

San Francisco honors atom bomb survivors on 80th anniversary

SAN FRANCISCO - Eighty years after the world witnessed the first atomic bombs dropped in Japan, survivors of the bombing gathered at a ceremony in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Japanese Tea Garden ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Truman never ordered the use of the atomic bombs—but he did order atomic bombings to be stopped

When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic bomb, there are a few obvious choices. July 16, 1945, was the date of the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, and has been used by some as ...
Wane

Shigeaki Mori, Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor and historian embraced by Obama, dies at 88

TOKYO (AP) — Shigeaki Mori, a Japanese atomic bomb survivor in Hiroshima and a historian but best known for a big hug he was given by then U.S. President Barack Obama during his historic visit to the ...