United Air Lines Flight 736, a DC-7 passenger plane carrying 47 people, had collided with an Air Force F-100F fighter jet ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb? Oppenheimer’s name has become “a metaphor for mass death beneath a mushroom cloud,” in the words of Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin ...

"You know what? The Moon's big enough that we can nuke it and land on it at the same time, so let's give this a shot." In 1958, the U.S. government plotted to show up the Soviets in the Space Race — ...

America detonated the world's first atomic bomb. The explosion vaporized the steel tower, sent a massive shockwave across the desert sand, and produced a mushroom cloud soaring 40,000 feet into ...

An atomic mushroom cloud in the distance, with the Las Vegas Club and the Pioneer Club in the foreground, June 1957. And a photo of “Miss Atomic Bomb” from May 24, 1957, the most-published Las ...

The world’s largest atomic bomb was exploded by the Russians north of the Arctic Circle in 1961. It was equivalent to 2,500 Hiroshima A-bombs. The fireball was 5 miles in diameter and could ...

Soon afterward, she’d see the mushroom cloud ... “We watched a rocket go off. It was a bomb. We saw the cloud.” The notebook sat gathering dust until 2006, when Sharp Howerton stumbled ...

A trove of over 1,500 photographs taken in the months following the atomic ... after the bomb exploded, Yamada became the first person on the ground to photograph the mushroom cloud that rose ...

When the atomic bomb was dropped on the city on August 9th, 1945, they were far enough away to survive the blast, but close enough to see the mushroom cloud. Their stories are rarely told ...

Hailing from Three Mile Island — the site of a nuclear meltdown in Pennsylvania during the late 1970s — Adam Bomb caused a mushroom cloud of destruction ... as the atomic powerhouse continued ...