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Dec 15, 2017 · The official count of 1,054 tests includes 210 atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962 - with cameras capturing every one. This week, a team at the federal Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has released 62 of these atmospheric nuclear test videos on YouTube. An estimated 10,000 of these videos have languished for decades ...
On July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., a light "brighter than a thousand suns," filled the valley. As the now familiar mushroom cloud rose in to the sky, Oppenheimer quoted from Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-gita, "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." The world had entered the nuclear age. Immediately after the test a Sherman M-4 tank ...
The fear of Adolph Hitler getting a nuclear weapon led to a race to deter him by developing such a bomb first. Thus began a chain of events that would lead inexorably to Hiroshima, the nuclear ...
The uranium 235 gun-type bomb, named Little Boy, exploded at 8:16 a.m. In an instant 80,000 to 140,000 people were killed and 100,000 more were seriously injured. The bomb exploded 1,900 feet above the center of the city, some 70 yards southeast of the Industrial Promotion Hall (now known as the Atomic Bomb Dome).
