When atomic bombs struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 ... after each bomb explosion, intense light and heat spread from the point of implosion. People and objects in the path blocked the ...

On July 16, 1945, the US conducted the world's first test of a nuclear weapon. Less than a month later, two bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing about the ...

To date, only the US has ever dropped nuclear bombs on a population — in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Still, the number of ...

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo ... Three days later the plutonium bomb was used to bomb Nagasaki. The two bombs killed approximately 150,000 people when they fell.

Even though Yamawaki survived the heat and blast of the explosion, he could not escape ... of the blast is a monument called the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum and Peace Park. Even the cathedral ...

NAGASAKI--For decades, atomic bombing survivor Nobuko ... symptoms of what is believed to be atomic bomb disease four years after the explosion. Oka had to fight not just the pain of radiation ...

Editor in chief Nancy Shute traces the history of nuclear weapons, from the first sustained nuclear reaction in 1942 to the renewed interest in explosive tests today.

After the dropping of a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki, he has ordered Japan’s surrender. Despite two devastating attacks on the country, many people are shocked – the Japanese ...

its power will be 100 times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A nuclear explosion generates a significant amount of energy through a process known as nuclear fission.