Let’s return to the history of atomic weapons. The Little Boy and the Fat Man were atomic bombs, or fission bombs, which set off a chain reaction of nuclear fission. The atomic nuclei of radioactive materials were split to create different elements, which releases a large amount of energy...
Here’s how much deadlier today’s nukes are compared to WWII atomic bombs. With so much at stake, it’s important to understand what these things are capable of.
1945: The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 1960s–1970s: Particle physicists figured out how several fundamental forces hold small, "subatomic" particles together to make atoms. Their ideas gradually became known as the Standard Model. 2013: Scie...
North Korea is threatening to test a hydrogen bomb, a weapon more powerful than the atomic bombs that devastated the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima during World War II. Here's how they differ.
You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what ...
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While the political landscape of nuclear warfare has changed considerably over the years, the science of the weapon itself — the atomic processes that unleash all of that fury — have been known since the time of Einstein. This article will review how nuclear bombs work, including how they're...
The war ended after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Late Showa: Postwar Occupation When Japan surrendered, the terms of surrender included the U.S. occupation of Japan, which lasted until 1952.
More About This Book Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story Caren Stelson Sachiko Yasui was just six years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on her hometown of Nagasaki. This true story begins with the day of the bombing and follows as Sachiko loses family and friends to the bombing...
The asteroid that spelt the end of the dinosaurs measured just 6 miles wide, but hit with the force of 10 billion atomic bombs. The result was the extinction of 70 per cent of all life on Earth. wikimedia commons What if the Asteroid Had Missed?