Atom Bomb a bomb with a nuclear charge dropped from aircraft. The first atom bombs were made in the USA at the end of World War II. The explosion of an atom bomb releases a tremendous amount of nuclear energy. In July 1945 the Americans tested the atom bomb and then dropped two bombs...
The first chapters show the development of the bomb from its conception to its successful test at the Trinity site in New Mexico. The editor includes articles that relate to the debate about using the bomb. We hear from Secretary of State Henry Stimson, military analyst Hanson ...
“You carpet-bombed Germany. You dropped the atom bomb. A lot of civilians died,” Biden quoted Netanyahu as having said. “They not only want to have retribution — which they should — for what Hamas did, but against all Palestinians… They don’t want anything to (do) with the Pales...
Splitting the Atom, Changing the World America Builds the Atomic Bomb, 1939-194550 years ago this month.The place: A stretch of desert near Alamagordo, N.M.The time: Twenty-nine minutes and 45 seconds past 5 a.m., Mountain War Time.The event: The world's first nuclear explosion, ...