Press Play with Madeleine Brand America built the atom bomb in enormous, secret cities Building atom bombs was a feat rivaling the science behind them. The Manhattan Project oversaw hundreds of ...
The First Quebec Conference, 1943: (clockwise from top left) Mr Mackenzie King, Winston Churchill, Alexander Cambridge, Earl of Athlone, and President Roosevelt - Bettmann Manhattan, Mayson, Maud. One ...
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Einstein’s anti-atom bomb letter goes up for auction amid Israel-Iran nuclear tension
More about Albert Einstein’s letter to Roosevelt and Project Manhattan. In August 1939, Einstein, with the help of Leo Szilard, wrote a letter to the then-US President warning h ...
Tick. Tick. Tick. Eighty years ago this month, the doomsday clock jolted to life. Nothing was the same after Aug. 6, 1945. On that date, the first of two American atomic bombs went off in Hiroshima, ...
Andrew Roberts argues that the U.S. was justified in bombing Japan because doing so ended the war more quickly and with fewer casualties than if the war had been fought to a conclusion by conventional ...
The front page of the Parkersburg News from Aug. 15, 1945. (Archive Image) Eighty years ago last week our country did something that had never been done before or since. They exploded an “atom bomb” ...
"If that atom bomb hits, fall flat and double up." That was the core of advice in a government booklet published 75 years ago – "Survival Under Atomic Attack." The publication, put out by the Atomic ...
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