Headline 80 years ago declared, 'Atomic super-bomb, made at Oak Ridge, strikes Japan'

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Japan to force the unconditional surrender that ...

Why Albert Einstein refused to build the atomic bomb: The surprising truth behind his role in the nuclear age

Few names are as closely linked with the atomic bomb as Albert Einstein's. Mention nuclear weapons and, sooner or later, ...

Document lists 12 U.S. POWs killed in first atomic bombing

An investigative document written by the Allied occupation headquarters in Japan in 1948 revealed that 12 U.S. prisoners of ...

See what Hiroshima looks like 80 years after the atomic bomb

On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...
Media Matters for America

Mark Levin: In 1945, “we dropped two atomic bombs. Now, I'm not encouraging it. I'm asking about the law. Is that legal today under the war — law of the war or not?”

MARK LEVIN (HOST): I have in front of me, though, you know, the Potsdam Declaration, July 1945. I wasn't even going to mention this, but I have it. And then we have the Instrument of Surrender by the ...
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The First Atomic Bomb Test in 1945 Created an Entirely New Material

The discovery from the Trinity nuclear test site shows how extreme conditions can result in materials never before seen in nature or in the lab. The term “clathrates” denotes materials characterized ...