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 ...

the Line fire had already released more energy into the atmosphere than a dozen atomic bombs. And just as nuclear blasts ...

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 ...

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 huge ‘mushroom cloud’ was caught on camera after a ‘loud bang’ erupted from the nuclear power stations in Heysham, near Morecambe. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Lancashire ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...