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Declassified Footage: An Atomic Bomb Too Big to Actually Use

The Tsar Bomba's explosion was unparalleled in power. With a 50 megaton capacity, this nuclear test was estimated to be 3,800 ...
PBS

‘The Devil Reached Toward the Sky’ documents motivation and development of the atomic bomb

The U.S. altered the course of history 80 years ago when it dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. It was an audacious move that ultimately led to the end of World War II. The motivation and secrecy ...
Yahoo

How the ‘Little Boy’ Hiroshima nuclear bomb transformed modern warfare forever

Eighty years ago, a weapon was used which would transform modern warfare and the entire world forever. Hiroshima, in Japan, was the target of the first ever nuclear weapon, dropped by the US Air Force ...
CNN

World marks 80 years since US dropped atomic bomb on Japan as global powers still trade nuclear threats

The Hiroshima atomic bomb, with an explosive yield of 15 kilotons, would be considered a low-yield nuclear weapon by today’s standards. The largest nuclear weapon in the US arsenal has a yield of 1.2 ...
Des Moines Register

Nuclear bomb-building plan faces sweeping Energy Department review

WASHINGTON − The agency responsible for building, maintaining, and storing America's nuclear weapons faces an internal review of its costly effort to reestablish mass production of nuclear warhead ...