On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively. The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 …

On December 21, 1938, German scientists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman became the first people to successfully split, or fission, a uranium atom. This groundbreaking experiment sent …

Sep 6, 2017 · The atomic bomb and nuclear bombs are powerful weapons that use nuclear reactions as their source of explosive energy. Scientists first developed nuclear weapons …

Nov 18, 2009 · On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The …

Jun 7, 2021 · The United States bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and August 9, 1945, were the first instances of atomic bombs used against humans, …

Harry Truman Announcing the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima (1945) On August 6, 1945, Harry Truman disclosed to the American public that the United States had detonated an atomic …

May 30, 2012 · Explore the top-secret American project to build the world's first atomic bomb. We strive for accuracy and fairness. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to …

The Atomic Archive explores the complex history surrounding the invention of the atomic bomb. Follow a timeline that takes you down the path of our nuclear past to the present. Read …

OVERVIEW ESSAY ATOMIC BOMBS T P 37 The US decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki altered the course of the Asia-Pacific war and …

The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a history book written by the American journalist and historian Richard Rhodes, first published by Simon & Schuster in 1987. The book won multiple awards, …