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Nazis and the Bomb

How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic bomb? The truth is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have ...
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'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 ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The Manhattan Project first created the Bomb. Then came its story—as revealed in the documentary “Bombshell”

(Original 1945 Caption) “Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves (r), Chief of Manhattan Engineering District in which first Atomic Bomb was developed, and Dr. J. R. Oppenheimer, Dir. of Los Alamos Atomic Bomb ...
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Hanson: Were the atomic bombs of August 1945 'demonic?'

Did demons create the first atomic bombs? Every August, debate renews over both the wisdom and the morality of dropping the two American atomic bombs, 81 years ago, on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima ...

Why Was the Third Atomic Bomb Not Dropped? [Part 1]—The Nuclear Attack Clock That Stopped on August 15 (Historical Mystery Analysis Note)

There Was a 'Next After Hiroshima and Nagasaki'August 6, 1945, Hiroshima.August 9, Nagasaki.The 'atomic bombings' by the U.S.
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Atomic energy for military purposes; the official report on the development of the atomic bomb under the auspices of the United States government, 1940-1945, by Henry De Wolf Smyth

"Written at the request of Maj. Gen. L. R. Groves, U.S.A." "This book is a republication, with the modifications detailed in the author's preface, of the official report issued by the Manhattan ...
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 ...
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Las Vegas Atomic Museum Makes Case For Nuclear Weapons

A 110-degree day in Las Vegas, a city dedicated to entertainment and capitalism, seems a strange place to commemorate the 80 th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Yet Las Vegas has its ...