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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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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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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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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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Sheltering miles from a nuclear blast may not be enough to survive unless you know where to hide, new calculations show
Powerful shockwaves from a nuclear explosion may prove deadly, in addition to the blinding light an…
Rupendra Brahambhatt
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The US military set off its largest nuclear explosion in testing 69 years ago, but scientists had no idea the blast would be that big
The Castle Bravo nuclear test produced an explosive yield of 15 megatons and was 1,000 times more p…
Jake Epstein
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Hiroshima: The moment the US deployed the most powerful weapon known to man
The 5-ton nuclear bomb, named "Little Boy," emerged from the Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project. T…
Military & Defense Team
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A nuclear attack would most likely target 1 of 6 US cities. Simulated images show how a Hiroshima-like explosion would affect each.
To help people understand how a nuke would affect large cities around the world, nuclear-weapons hi…
Aria Bendix,Aria Bendix
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The Beirut explosion created a huge mushroom cloud and visible blast wave, but nuclear-weapons experts say it wasn't an atomic bomb. Here's why.
Though the explosion that has killed dozens and injured thousands had some features of an atomic bl…
Dave Mosher
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Here's what the 'Little Boy' atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima would do to major American cities
If detonated over 20th St and 5th Avenue in Manhattan, the air-blast radius of Little Boy-sized dev…
Armin Rosen,Alex Lockie
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Russian Meteor Hit Atmosphere With A Force Of 40 Hiroshima Bombs
Divers were this morning searching the Chelyabinsk region's frozen Lake Chebarkul for a fragment of…
The Telegraph
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Newly declassified videos of Cold War atomic blasts reveal the terrifying power of nuclear weapons
One of the films in this second and latest batch shows the "Tesla" test shot on March 1, 1955. Like…
Dave Mosher
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TUNGUSKA: 106 Years Ago, A Mysterious Explosion 1000x More Powerful Than The Hiroshima Bomb Rocked Siberia
But science seems to miss a key point at the time. There were lots of astronomers and telescopes. T…
Sam Ro
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Elon Musk has become just another Trump apprentice
Plenty of people have been steamrolled by Donald Trump, but no one has torched their image in servi…
Linette Lopez
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D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion in history — and likely the last. Here's why.
D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion in history, and possibly the last due to smaller militari…
Michael Peck
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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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Read the statement the US military used to cover up Oppenheimer's first nuclear test, claiming it was an ammo dump blowing up
A bogus explanation for the blast that was actually Oppeneimer's first nuclear bomb test was buried…
Mia Jankowicz
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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…