Out of this surreal convergence of spectacle and science emerged one of the most striking and unsettling cultural icons of ...
The Rulison test — conducted at a depth of 8,425 feet — was the deepest subterranean nuclear-bomb detonation conducted in U.S. history.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a sunshiny, summer morning in 1945, a hungry boy and his widowed aunt were fishing for halibut and goby in their war-torn ...
PORT SAINT LUCIE, Fla. — A significant discovery was recently made on Florida’s coast. A scuba diver discovered a World War II explosive device during a dive near Port Saint Lucie. The find prompted ...
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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Nuclear historian outlines the devastating effects of an atomic blast on the human body
In a YouTube video, WIRED interviewed Alex Wellerstein, a professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, in order to find out more about the sequence of events and physical effects produced by a ...
On a sunshiny, summer morning in 1945, a hungry boy and his widowed aunt were fishing for halibut and goby in their war-torn country when they saw something unusual, something scarier than the ...
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