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How Christopher Nolan recreated the Trinity Test atomic bomb explosion in 'Oppenheimer' without any CGI
Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" movie used vintage Hollywood tricks to create an atomic bomb expl…
Maiya Focht
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Hydrogen bombs vs. atomic bombs: Breaking down the differences in how they work, how much they cost, and which is most powerful
Hydrogen bombs and atomic bombs both operate via nuclear physics, but one is 1,000 times more power…
Adam Barnes
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How atomic bombs work and why Manhattan Project scientists designed two types of bombs during WWII
Atomic bombs work via nuclear fission. When enough radioactive material undergoes fission, it trigg…
Adam Barnes
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How hydrogen bombs work and why they were created after WWII despite being more powerful than atomic bombs
Hydrogen bombs, considered nuclear weapons, work using a combination of nuclear fission and fusion.…
Adam Barnes
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The remarkable story of the world's first atomic bomb and how Oppenheimer reacted to the historic moment
J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the men who oversaw the detonation of the world's first atomic bom…
Amanda Macias,Joshua Zitser
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Christopher Nolan reacts to fans who assumed he detonated an atomic bomb on the set of 'Oppenheimer'
The director opened up about the film, which stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and cent…
Olivia Singh
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A secret bomb and ruined film: Why the US government only told Kodak it was going to test nuclear bombs
Kodak struck a secret deal with the US government to get advance notice before any nuclear testing …
Maiya Focht
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Christopher Nolan recreates first Nuclear detonation without VFX for his upcoming movie Oppenheimer
The pursuit of keeping things real pushed Christopher Nolan to recreate the first nuclear weapon de…
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The US Army is steeling itself for a surge in tourists at the Trinity test site — the site of the first-ever nuclear bomb test — because of 'Oppenheimer'
The US holds biannual open houses to the Trinity test site, and warned that tourists at the next op…
Matthew Loh
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The Google engineer who was fired after claiming the company's chatbot is sentient says AI is the 'most powerful' tech invented 'since the atomic bomb'
Blake Lemoine was fired by Google in June 2022 after he claimed that the company's LaMDA chatbot ha…
Cheryl Teh
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How a US government program advocated using nuclear explosions for construction, farming radioactive crops, and blasting holes in the moon
In the 50s and 60s, the US dreamed up ways to bring nuclear tech into everyday life — like bu…
Marianne Guenot
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What happened when the Trinity test bomb detonated, from the creation of green glass to fallout that drifted over 1,000 miles
The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, …
Jenny McGrath
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A Pacific volcano erupted with an explosive force more than 600 times the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, scientists said
Scientists say the underwater volcano's eruption may be the loudest since Krakatau, a devastating e…
Julie Coleman
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US honey still contains traces of the radioactive fallout of nuclear bomb testing in the '50s and '60s, study finds
Traces of radioactive cesium-137 act as a marker of "hot spots" of nuclear contamination, but they …
Marianne Guenot
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US military atomic cleanup crews were sent out in the wake of American nuclear testing, and many paid a heavy price, veterans say
One veteran told Insider that exposure to radioactive material could come from anywhere, like eatin…
Jake Epstein
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The US Army only ever fired one nuclear artillery shell from its 'Atomic Annie' cannon, and this is what it looked like
Here's what it looked like when the atomic cannon fired its one and only nuclear shot. The blast wa…
Ryan Pickrell
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How a daring raid by Norwegian commandos kept the Nazis from building a nuclear bomb
The Norwegian commandos who set out on Operation Gunnerside knew what their objective was but not w…
Benjamin Brimelow
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The US military once detonated a nuclear bomb directly above the heads of 5 officers
The test was conducted to see how an unguided nuclear air-to-air rocket performed. All five men are…
Chris Panella
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Scientists describe setting off the world's first nuclear bomb 75 years ago: No one 'even raised the possibility that what we were doing might be morally wrong'
The Trinity nuclear explosion, part of the Manhattan Project, marked the development of the deadlie…
Aria Bendix
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How a secret mission to deliver the first atomic bomb turned into the Navy's deadliest loss at sea
In July 1945, the USS Indianapolis carried out a secret mission in the Pacific. But only one-quarte…