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Lindsey Graham wants more bombs for Israel, saying the US was right to nuke Nagasaki and Hiroshima
Sen. Lindsey Graham this month repeatedly hailed the atomic bombings as an argument for why the US …
Matthew Loh
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Michigan congressman slammed for appearing to suggest Gaza should be destroyed 'like Nagasaki and Hiroshima'
Walberg has since attempted to clarify his comments, saying he used a metaphor to call for Israel a…
Cameron Manley
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The WWII Tokyo firebombing was the deadliest air raid in history, with a death toll exceeding those of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The US air raid killed up to 100,000 Japanese people, most of them civilians, signaling an escalati…
Yoonji Han
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The Olympics Committee said it won't pause for a moment of silence for Hiroshima atomic bombing after city requests for one
Olympic athletes will not be asked to hold a moment of silence for the anniversary of the Hiroshima…
Matthew Loh
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If you are on a beach in South Japan, it's possible you are standing on what was once Hiroshima
A beach can stand for many things — like spring break or summer vacation — but in Southern Japan,…
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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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Here's what Hiroshima looks like today - and how the effects of the bombing still linger
Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images The A-bomb Dome, which survived the 1945 atomic bombing on Hiroshi…
Laura McCamy
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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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Oppenheimer went into a deep depression after reading about the effects of the atomic bomb on Japan and even publicly spoke out against using the bomb
At a meeting with President Harry Truman in 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer told the commander-in-chief…
Rebecca Cohen
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Matt Damon says he spoke to Ben Affleck's grandfather who served in World War II about Hiroshima before starring in 'Oppenheimer'
"Oppenheimer" star Matt Damon told CNN's Chris Wallace it was "impossible" to say whether the US ma…
Maria Noyen
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Russia released secret footage of history's largest man-made explosion — a nuclear blast thousands of times stronger than Hiroshima
The blast was equivalent to 50 megatons of TNT — nearly 1,500 times more powerful than the Hiroshim…
Aria Bendix
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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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Godzilla was birthed from the devastation in Japan after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Here's how a real fishing-boat disaster inspired the fictional monster.
And at the height of fear and panic just eight months after the incident, the 1954 original "Gojira…
Nathaniel Lee
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Why Einstein wasn't part of the Manhattan Project even though he convinced President Roosevelt to build an atomic bomb
Einstein didn't join scientists like J. Robert Oppenheimer in the Manhattan Project. US officials w…
Sonam Sheth
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J. Robert Oppenheimer stifled a petition by 70 scientists beseeching President Truman not to use the atomic bomb. Read it here.
Leo Szilard and other Manhattan Project scientists sent a petition asking President Truman not to d…
Jenny McGrath
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Declassified photos show the US's final preparations for the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The bombs, known as "Little Boy" and "Fat Man," were loaded onto bombers at the North Field airbase…
Military & Defense Team
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Russia's war in Ukraine raises a harrowing question: How widespread would fallout from a nuclear bomb be?
A modern-day nuclear bomb could wipe out an entire city and cause third-degree burns in nearby area…
Aria Bendix
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Declassified photos show the US's final preparations for the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Many things are known about the sequence of events leading up to the dropping of the bombs, known a…