Three weather planes will fly an hour ahead and ... For the men who developed the atomic bomb and masterminded the mission, their families and the rest of the world finally know the top secret ...
On February 5, 1958, during a training exercise, an F-86 fighter plane ... from the bomb casing and the explosives that caused the implosion," Stephen Schwartz, the author of Atomic Audit: The ...
And they were willing to devote huge amounts of resources to building rockets, jet planes, and other forms of deadly and sometimes exotic forms of military technology. So why not the atomic bomb?
Ken Jones, a retired Air Force Lt. Colonel, shares what it was like flying with nuclear bombs aboard his plane during the ...
Ten B-29s, loaded with unarmed atomic bombs, set out for the Pacific. On August 5, one of the planes crashed during take off from Fairfield-Suisun Air Force base near San Francisco, killing a ...
Up to 246,000 people are estimated to have died after the US dropped atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima ... livestream’ Fire breaks out on plane with 176 people on board When Pope Francis ...
Fukahori represented the bomb victims at a ceremony, making his "pledge for peace," saying: "I am determined to send our message to make Nagasaki the final place where an atomic bomb is ever dropped." ...