"To say that I'm a hibakusha, to say that I experienced the atomic bomb took a huge amount of courage," Kido said, using the Japanese term given to atomic bomb survivors.
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Dear reader — please make Nagasaki the last atomic bomb site.
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The atomic bomb has also affected our children and grandchildren.
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For atomic bomb survivor Eiji Hattori, Obama's remarks provided solace.
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They are many times more powerful than an atomic bomb.
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Stuff like that Nazis actually built the first atomic bomb.
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"It looked like an atomic bomb went off," he said.
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It took nearly three years to develop the atomic bomb.
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It took nearly three years to develop the atomic bomb.
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That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
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The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed some 80,000 people.
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"When John is described by many as an atomic bomb."
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The process can be as powerful as an atomic bomb.
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We must never create atomic bomb victims like myself, ever again.
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Q. How is a hydrogen bomb different from an atomic bomb?
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This confirms one theory: that Apocalypse will feature an atomic bomb.
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The first atomic bomb could have been built by the Nazis.
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By comparison, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was 15 kilotons.
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One account he follows suggested dropping an atomic bomb on Pakistan.
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Right: Photographer unknown, Aftermath of the atomic bomb, Hiroshima, Japan, 1945.
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Einstein had invented the atomic bomb, mistreated dogs, neglected his children.
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That's Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for giving the atomic bomb, O.K.?
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The first U.S. atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on Aug.
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How are a hydrogen bomb and a regular atomic bomb different?
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How did you become the band leader for the Atomic Bomb!
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"This is a straight-up atomic bomb to their business," he says.
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It's long been said that only cockroaches can survive an atomic bomb.
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And that energy comes from an atomic bomb inside the hydrogen bomb.
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Iran denies its nuclear program was aimed at obtaining an atomic bomb.
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Iran denies its nuclear programme was aimed at obtaining an atomic bomb.
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The atomic bomb and the moon rocket were giant but discrete projects.
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Historians recently uncovered another Soviet spy in the U.S. atomic bomb program.
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Why not carve it out with some atomic bomb blasts, locals be damned?
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You see this, for example, with the atomic bomb and the Cold War.
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An atomic bomb works as the trigger to set off the hydrogen bomb.
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The atomic bomb used on Hiroshima was about 15 kilotons of explosive force.
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More than 600,000 people visit the atomic bomb museum in Nagasaki every year.
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North Korea's apparent possession of an atomic bomb was already causing serious concern.
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A 20-kiloton atomic bomb would demolish several blocks in a major city.
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It was the first atomic-bomb attack in history and destroyed the city.
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The liberal peace that followed may depend on fear of the atomic bomb.
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And hours before Truman's address, a second atomic bomb was unleashed on Nagasaki.
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So the US atomic bomb arrived weeks too late for use against Germany.
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The scientific community had mobilized during the war to develop the atomic bomb.
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But some experts suspect the North may have tested a "boosted" atomic bomb.
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The book reaches its climax after the atomic bomb explodes above Hiroshima on Aug.
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It had just finished delivering components to the atomic bomb later detonated in Hiroshima.
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Uranium enriched to a high level can be used to make an atomic bomb.
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Mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb detonated at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, 1946.
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A single atomic bomb detonated 500 meters above this town, destroying everything underneath it.
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A mushroom cloud rises above Bikini Atoll following an atomic bomb test in 19573.
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They are building AI and they're afraid that's the equivalent of the atomic bomb.
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The first atomic bomb exploded at Alamogordo, New Mexico more than 70 years ago.
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Shigeaki Mori was 8 when the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Aug.
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In 1950, President Truman raised the possibility of using the atomic bomb in Korea.
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Tuesday is the 74th anniversary of the US dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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Lineup:Nancy Whang (The Juan MacLean, LCD Soundsystem)Sinkane (Ahmed Gallab, William Onyeabor Atomic Bomb!
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Hiroshima was the first time that an atomic bomb was ever used in war.
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He had worked on developing the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project.
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The US remains the only country to ever use an atomic bomb in war.
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Yet the fighting in Europe ended before either side had a working atomic bomb.
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Other military equipment that was contaminated by atomic bomb explosions was left at Hunters Point.
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The atomic bomb — another symbol of darkness scattered throughout the season — can't be un-exploded.
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The two governments hope Obama's tour of Hiroshima, where an atomic bomb dropped on Aug.
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Three weeks later, the world changed when the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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He only learned about the mission to build an atomic bomb after he became President.
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The result: a bomb that is hundreds of times more powerful than an atomic bomb.
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On August 2300, 23, a U.S. B-2100 bomber dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima.
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New science-based weapons — most famously the atomic bomb — aided the US in the war.
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Trump mixed with the atomic bomb is scarier than anything King has written — so far.
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But he can't do that any more than someone can un-invent the atomic bomb.
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But in actuality, its effect would mimic that of the atomic bomb: Death and destruction.
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"It looked like an atomic bomb went off," he said of damage to the home.
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The detonation of the first atomic bomb by the United States over Hiroshima on Aug.
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The writer is the author of "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" and "Nuclear Renewal."
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"I often say that Irma was like an atomic bomb without the radiation," Tolede said.
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Kerry is visiting the city, which was obliterated by a U.S. atomic bomb on Aug.
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U.S. forces dropped another atomic bomb on the southern city of Nagasaki on Aug. 9.
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I can never accept the act that #BTS member wore the atomic bomb T-shirts humanely.
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Barack Obama used cyber weaponry and sanctions to deter Iran from building its own atomic bomb.
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Also, how does one ensure that North Korea can't build an atomic bomb in the future?
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H.G. Wells wrote about an atomic bomb in 1914, decades before the first one was tested.
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On August 9, 1945, the United States military dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
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But the atomic bomb was created with the express purpose of reducing human populations to dust.
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Koerner observes there's a reticence among descendants of the atomic bomb blast to discuss the event.
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The United States was first, detonating an atomic bomb in New Mexico on July 16, 1945.
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This basically adds a small amount of tritium, a hydrogen isotope, to an atomic bomb assembly.
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The atomic bomb dropped by the US on Hiroshima in 1945 is estimated at 15 kilotons.
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The United States spent more money developing the B-218 Superfortress than creating the atomic bomb.
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Iwasaki was born in Hiroshima, thirty years after the city was razed by the atomic bomb.
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"For others, the atomic bomb marked the end of the war and the liberation," she said.
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"In retrospect we know that Hitler was not focused on an atomic bomb", says Mr Hammerstad.
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A hydrogen bomb usually uses a primary atomic bomb to trigger a secondary, much larger explosion.
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Seventy years ago today, the United States military dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
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That emotional atomic bomb of a sentence leaves June sobbing as Fred returns from his shower.
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Within a week, the news reached us: America had dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan.
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It is a more powerful weapon than the atomic bomb it had tested in the past.
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The size of Wednesday's quake is bigger than seismic activity reported in previous atomic bomb tests.
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An atomic bomb uses fission, that is, the breaking of an atom's nucleus into smaller particles.
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Nagasaki was the second city to be hit by an atomic bomb during World War Two.
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Three days after dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the United States dropped one on Nagasaki.
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While people tend to associate the United States' atomic bomb efforts with Japan and the war in the Pacific, the Manhattan Project — the American program to produce an atomic bomb — was actually undertaken in reaction to Allied suspicions that the Germans were actively pursuing such a weapon.
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Seismic readings showed that North Korea's claimed H-bomb test was probably only an enhanced atomic bomb.
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On that cool morning in July 1945, Fermi and his colleagues tested the very first atomic bomb.
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Hiroshima was devastated when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city in August 1945.
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I hope that visitors to Nagasaki will pass on the stories of terror involving the atomic bomb.
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The city's memorial to victims of the atomic bomb reportedly has 30 Poké Stops and several gyms.
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He'll become the first sitting American president to visit the site of the U.S. atomic bomb attack.
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Gathering in the Japanese city of Hiroshima where the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Aug.
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Scientists believe it may have been a billion times stronger than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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All of them had spectacularly good titles, like Great Lover (1981), Hypertension (1982), and Atomic Bomb (1978).
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His agency was involved in the Manhattan Project, the top-secret mission to create the atomic bomb.
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The resulting explosion released 400 times as much radioactive material as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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Henry L. Stimson in one life fights Indian "wars" and oversees the building of the atomic bomb.
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A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors.
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This Los Angeles home was built to withstand an atomic bomb, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Kids my age were schooled in violence: a war that included mass genocide and the atomic bomb.
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Like the other workers, they were unaware of the government's goal of building the first atomic bomb.
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"Under no circumstances should the atomic bomb be used in Korea," he wrote on July 16, 1950.
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The resulting blast can easily be 1,000 times as powerful as the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
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"The most sensational news I ever heard was that we had exploded an atomic bomb," Woody wrote.
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He is the second pope to pay respects to victims of the atomic bomb, the AP reported.
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He had been kept in the dark about the project to build and deploy the atomic bomb.
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Atomic bomb explosions sneak into the backgrounds of several of his images — like a loose, undated watercolor, "Untitled [Self-portrait in front of Village with an Atomic Bomb]" that features Cannon sitting calmly in traditional dress, with a painting of a bomb exploding to the side of his head.
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When the atomic bomb exploded on Hiroshima, the Los Alamos scientists cheered, Gilinsky recounted in a 2006 speech.
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More than 100,000 people were killed in Hiroshima with the dropping of the first atomic bomb in 1945.
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It had been the only nation to drop an atomic bomb, so it had demonstrated its military might.
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Even the title — Los Alamos — referring to the locale where the atomic bomb was invented is hardly innocuous.
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A hydrogen bomb is hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bomb that devastated Hiroshima in 1945.
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"Net neutrality certainly was a mini-atomic bomb in the middle of it," he told reporters last June.
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In the Middle East and Africa section, we looked at the reactor behind Israel's secretive Atomic bomb activities.
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An atomic bomb dropped on that would end the Soviet Union, the bad guys from the future assume.
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About 84,000 survivors of the atomic bomb still live in Hiroshima Prefecture, and an additional 48,000 in Nagasaki.
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Terumi Tanaka was 13 when the atomic bomb exploded a mile and a half from his Nagasaki home.
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By the time the siren sounded, the first atomic bomb to be used in war had already dropped.
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The dragons and their fiery extermination of innocents do smack rather strongly of the atomic bomb, or napalm.
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But one thing people agree on is that the fire raids were probably worse than the atomic bomb.
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And the resulting explosion released 10 times the energy of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
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Not unlike the atomic bomb, she radiates destruction, either damaging or being damaged by almost everyone around her.
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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded in 103 by researchers who worked on the atomic bomb.
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"I would like to take over the baton of peace from atomic bomb survivors," one young person told me.
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Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes and denies it has aimed to build an atomic bomb.
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I learned about the atomic bomb attack through hibakusha testimonies, video interviews, and photographs/artifacts from that time period.
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He will become the first U.S. President to visit the Japanese city where the first atomic bomb was dropped.
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Iran says its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes and denies it has aimed to build an atomic bomb.
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I don't know what she was going to do — come down with an eggs Benedict during the atomic bomb?
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The Soviet Union would not have the atomic bomb until August 1949, and could not risk an open conflict.
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After that, there was a great big explosion, as if from a film about Hiroshima and the atomic bomb.
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Here are the answers to seven key questions: What's the difference between an H-bomb and an atomic bomb?
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Project Orion sought to propel space vehicles with atomic bomb explosions, and Bezos wanted to know all about it.
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It as if the Night King is Hitler, and Daenerys is Truman because the dragons are the atomic bomb.
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The Anthropocene is an old idea, dating perhaps to the first atomic bomb, given fresh scientific imprimatur this spring.
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While a hydrogen bomb is much more powerful than an atomic bomb, it is also much harder to make.
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"No doubt, the atomic bomb would enable a weak state to stand up to more powerful adversaries," they write.
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Finally, from a reactor at Yongbyon, it succeeded in making plutonium: enough for about one atomic bomb a year.
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Harry Truman was thrust into ending World War II and his decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan.
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Remember the Lyndon B. Johnson 1964 campaign ad "Daisy," showing an innocent little girl, and then an atomic bomb blast?
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Three days later a second B-29, Bockscar, dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, changing the course of world history.
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Three days later a second B-29, Bockscar, dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, changing the course of world history.
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It's like owning an atomic bomb: powerful if used as a threat, but once it's detonated there is nothing left.
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Nearly 140,000 people, the majority of whom were civilians, died after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city.
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When the Moores ventured outside a day later, "It looked like an atomic bomb went off," Tiffany Moore tells PEOPLE.
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Hydrogen bombs use a two-step process of fission and fusion that releases substantially more energy than an atomic bomb.
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Born out of the nihilism of the atomic bomb, butoh is a Japanese form of dance that eludes simple definition.
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The explosion led to the release of 400 times as much radioactive material as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE So how did the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in 20103 get there?
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Billy Beane basically invented the atomic bomb and then gave everyone instructions on how to build better versions of it.
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That ended Nazi Germany's struggle for Norwegian heavy water and all of the regime's realistic hopes for an atomic bomb.
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Both worked in Chicago on the Manhattan Project, the government effort during World War II to develop an atomic bomb.
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Coming three days after the strike against Hiroshima, it was the second, and last, atomic bomb attack by American forces.
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According to Nigerian site Naji, the "Atomic Bomb" singer died on Monday, January 16 at his home in Enugu, Nigeria.
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Iran denies ever having had a nuclear arms program and says it would never seek to build an atomic bomb.
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"An atomic bomb" is how one transport minister in Australia described the bush fires that continue to ravage the country.
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He said he learned of the project's goal of building an atomic bomb only when it was dropped on Japan.
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Don Miller, the farm's owner, was a retired "scientist who helped build the first atomic bomb," according to the FBI.
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Ever since the US developed the atomic bomb in 1945, our best defense has been the prospect of devastating nuclear retaliation.
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Before the attack, the USS Indianapolis delivered parts of the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima to Tinian in a secret mission.
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When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, he decoded the news and took it to President Harry S. Truman.
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Obama in Hiroshima President Obama made history today in Hiroshima, a city obliterated by a U.S. atomic bomb seven decades ago.
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Nor did Obama apologize for the U.S. atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.
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Some said that North Korea might be preparing to test a "boosted-fission weapon," more powerful than a traditional atomic bomb.
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In contrast, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was nearly three times as powerful, with a force of about 15 kilotons.
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A Japanese citizen walks through the damaged lands of Nagasaki, two months after the atomic bomb was dropped over the city.
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Three days after a U.S. warplane dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on Aug.
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Not an atomic bomb but something rarer still: a singular being who can breathe both underwater and, less happily, in air.
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The previous year, the Soviet Union had successfully tested an atomic bomb and China had fallen to Mao Zedong's Communist forces.
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On August 6, 1945, the B-29 Superfortress bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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Hiroshi Harada, a former head of the atomic bomb museum Kerry visited this week, was six when the bomb was dropped.
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Government sponsored research generated numerous inventions critical to winning the war, including radar, early computers, and — most fatefully — the atomic bomb.
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A house in Los Angeles that was built to withstand an atomic bomb is on the market for nearly $30 million.
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He participated there in experiments conducted on brief rocket flights, some to detect X-rays from high-altitude atomic bomb tests.
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It further raises regional tensions, as Iran's longtime foe Israel has promised never to allow Iran to produce an atomic bomb.
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The cause of death was duodenal papilla cancer, according to Fumie Kakita, secretary general of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council.
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The most basic kind of nuclear weapon — the kind experts say the North began with — is known as an atomic bomb.
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For a few years after the end of World War II, the atomic bomb was a figure of pop culture worship.
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The first to lend his expertise was N. Joseph Woodland, an alumnus of the Manhattan Project, developer of the atomic bomb.
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The Marshall Islands, population 53,000, was the site of dozens of atomic-bomb tests by the United States after World War Two.
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From places of worship to the white sands of atomic bomb testing sites, questions of identity, culture, and local history are raised.
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In Hiroshima, Japan, earlier this year, Obama stood below skies where the first atomic bomb burst and changed the face of warfare.
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Iran has always insisted that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes and denies it has aimed to build an atomic bomb.
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I covered the Philippine drug war, a teenage murder in Israel/Palestine, interviewed Holocaust victims, sex-trafficking survivors, and atomic bomb witnesses.
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Left: A bandaged survivor tries to comfort a Japanese baby who was badly burned when the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.
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Survivors hospitalized in Hiroshima in 1945 reveal their skin covered with burn scars caused by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
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These were lifted under the 2015 accord in return for Tehran curbing nuclear activity of potential use in developing an atomic bomb.
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In a series of three paintings from 1945, Obata reflects on the devastation in Japan after the fall of the atomic bomb.
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A meteor that exploded over the Bering Sea in December released 10 times the energy of an atomic bomb into the atmosphere.
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Obama hugged Shigeaki Mori, an atomic bomb survivor who created a memorial for American prisoners of war who were killed at Hiroshima.
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The proof of that comes from Fukushima, and Chernobyl, and even from the much higher dose exposures suffered by atomic bomb survivors.
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I went on to interview three hibakusha — survivors of the atomic bomb — and was feeling shattered by the details of their memories.
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Breakout time refers to the amount of time it would theoretically take Iran to produce enough fissile material for an atomic bomb.
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"Of course we have a feeling of wanting an apology," said Mr. Tanaka, the director of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivor's Council.
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The thing about the atomic bomb is that the more of you there are to fight it, the more crushingly you lose.
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On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated a completely new kind of weapon, the atomic bomb, and changed the world forever.
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It was enriched only for the atomic bomb that fell on Hiroshima -- not for the bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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"There is another point, which those few Americans who so carelessly advocate the use of the atomic bomb should remember," he concluded.
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Like the countdown to an atomic bomb explosion, it suggested the destruction that awaited if no one took action to stop it.
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The United States in 1951 injected a tiny amount of thermonuclear fuel into the core of an atomic bomb, enhancing its power.
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BEIJING — Mao Zedong famously dismissed the atomic bomb as a "paper tiger," able to kill and terrify, but not decisive in war.
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Each subject is framed between artworks and essay, beginning with the Anthropocene — our current, human-defined epoch instigated by the first atomic bomb.
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Truman had been vice president but had had no idea that the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb was in the works.
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She was exposed to the atomic bomb when she was 20, and lost both of her parents and three sisters in an instant.
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But if you're expecting him to apologize for the atomic bomb that killed 140,000 people, officials say that's not going to happen. 4.
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The White House has said the United States does not owe Japan a formal apology for using the atomic bomb in August 1945.
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Experts said the claim that the test involved a hydrogen bomb, which is more powerful than an atomic bomb, could not be confirmed.
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Their Jekyll and Hyde riff—another nerd, caught in an atomic-bomb-like explosion that transformed him into the Hulk—was less popular.
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The White House said Pyongyang might not in fact have tested a hydrogen bomb, which is much more powerful than an atomic bomb.
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On July 16, 1945, the world's very first atomic bomb was detonated on the Alamogordo Bombing Range, 200 miles south of Los Alamos.
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One of his Facebook posts suggested we make peace with the Muslim world as we did with Japan — by using the atomic bomb.
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Japan surrendered after a second atomic-bomb attack on the city of Nagasaki three days later, bringing World War II to an end.
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But it's unclear if it has mastered the technology needed to build an atomic bomb that can fit on a long-range missile.
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A U.S. warplane dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing thousands of people instantly and about 140,000 by the end of that year.
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The atomic bomb for us at the time, with Lisa in the second grade, and me in the first, was just an abstraction.
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"When it finally exploded 18 miles above the surface…it had… 30 times the energy of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima," he continued.
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During the trip, he will become the first sitting president to visit Hiroshima since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb there in 1945.
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She played Abby Isaacs, the young wife of a physicist in the underrated period drama "Manhattan," about the creation of the atomic bomb.
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His images — of humans dancing, the planets, an atomic bomb explosion, a shark — all point at the imperfection and impermanence of human existence.
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The article noted that when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945, more than 70,000 people were killed.
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Five months earlier, the United States had lost its monopoly on nuclear weapons when the Soviet Union detonated an atomic bomb in Kazakhstan.
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They are known as thermonuclear fuels because their ignition requires the blistering heat of an exploding atomic bomb, which acts like a match.
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He finished the war as a fire control chief on the Coghlan, steaming into Nagasaki harbor only days after the atomic bomb explosion.
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As march organizers note, science has always been political, from the imprisonment of Galileo to the creation of the atomic bomb and beyond.
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The U.S. hasn't invested in mass rare earths production since the Manhattan Project, which led to the creation of the first atomic bomb.
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The book follows a journalist, John — or Jonah, as he asks to be called — as he investigates the inventor of the atomic bomb.
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This summer, he became the first U.S. President to visit Hiroshima, seventy-one years after an American plane dropped an atomic bomb there.
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This is despite the fact that, before its torpedoing, the ship had delivered components of the atomic bomb Little Boy to Tinian Island.
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Along with him, the city was home to the enrichment of uranium as part of the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb.
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The energies involved in the generation of these acoustic waves are billions of billions of billions of times the power of an atomic bomb.
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No women ever invented an atomic bomb, built a smoke stack, initiated a Holocaust, melted the polar ice caps or organized a school shooting.
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Hiroshima, Japan (CNN)Katsumi Okudera was a 63-year-old high school student working in a Japanese railway office when the atomic bomb hit.
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South Korean President Park Geun-hye said last week that the North was believed to have completed preparations for a new atomic bomb test.
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Lewis based his descriptions of death and injury on authentic accounts from survivors of the atomic bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
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His mother was a Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor, and the fallout from the effects of that experience are still felt by his family today.
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Lithium 6 is a key ingredient to upgrading an atomic bomb to a hydrogen bomb that could be up to 1,000 times more powerful.
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However, the weapons that North Korea has tested thus far are comparatively small and based mostly on less sophisticated fission, or atomic bomb, technology.
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More important, and in the same way the atomic bomb emerged from World War II, the Death Star was birthed durning the Clone Wars.
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August 6, is the 74th anniversary of the use of the first atomic bomb, dropped by the US on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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It does so, moreover, as it relentlessly pursues not just an atomic bomb, but a hydrogen bomb that can be fitted onto its missiles.
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Scientists working in Los Alamos, New Mexico, developed the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project, which provided enriched uranium for the weapon.
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Among other buildings, she surveyed K-21.4, the legendary gaseous diffusion plant that produced the enriched uranium in the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
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Shawn and Hersey grasped that an on-site report on the effects of the first-ever atomic-bomb attack would be a monster story.
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Berg, who brought a gun to the lecture, was to shoot Heisenberg if anything he said suggested that Germany was developing an atomic bomb.
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Zimmermann extended Lenz's multilayered plotlines in every direction, eventually including a vision of the atomic bomb whose return so many in the '60s feared.
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I've seen a volcano explode — the Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980, with 500 times the force of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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He once told RT that the United States might drop an atomic bomb on Ukraine and blame Russia to create a pretext for war.
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Mr. Else became a filmmaker and directed a well-regarded documentary, "The Day After Trinity" (1980), about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb.
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The country was also the home to one of the USSR's major nuclear testing grounds, Semipalatinsk, where the Soviets tested their first atomic bomb.
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Every 10 minutes, the relentlessly warming oceans absorb 50 megatons of energy, the amount of energy released when detonating the largest-ever atomic bomb.
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A few years later, Las Vegas introduced the "Miss Atomic Bomb" competition, combining two things Nevada was known for: nuclear tests and pinup girls.
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In fact, a rehearsal for Trinity — America's first atomic bomb test detonation — was conducted on May 7, 1945, the very day that Germany surrendered.
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"I've got to be honest with you: This isn't a bushfire; it's an atomic bomb," NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance told ABC Radio Sydney.
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Alexander Feklisov told the Times that Rosenberg had provided him with military secrets but had never handed over anything of substance about the atomic bomb.
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In secret, the FBI was pursuing cases of the utmost gravity: Spies had penetrated the State Department and the project to build the atomic bomb.
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The unescorted Indianapolis carried almost 1,200 sailors and had just delivered to Tinian Island components of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
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In the northeast region of Kazakhstan, near the Russian border, sits a stretch of land where the Soviet Union spent years testing the atomic bomb.
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It was Shuman who was responsible for where it was built—underground in the New Mexico desert near where the first atomic bomb was detonated.
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The Hiroshima Chamber of Industry and Commerce was the only building remotely close to standing near the center of the atomic bomb blast of Aug.
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North Korean Atomic bomb tests, Russia election interference, Trump's alleged obstruction of justice, an earnings recession, gross domestic product with a zero handle; who cares?
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U.S. intelligence agencies and the U.N. nuclear watchdog believe Iran had a covert atomic bomb program for a number of years that it subsequently halted.
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President Obama spoke on Friday at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, where the United States first dropped an atomic bomb on Japan nearly 71 years ago.
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"Einstein later said, "Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in developing an atomic bomb, I would have done nothing for the bomb.
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In September 1954, the Soviet military detonated an atomic bomb in the air less than 2 miles away from 45,000 troops and thousands of civilians.
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He helped develop artillery shells capable of piercing the armor of German tanks and also consulted on the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb.
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Mr. Kim, however, turned the program into North Korea's version of the Manhattan Project, the race to develop the atomic bomb in the United States.
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CNBC explains… A hydrogen bomb is a type of nuclear bomb, just like an atomic bomb, where the explosive energy comes from as nuclear reaction.
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It also further raises regional tensions, as Iran's longtime foe Israel has promised never to allow Iran to be able to produce an atomic bomb.
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Returning to Enugu, he recorded his first albums, "Crashes in Love" and "Atomic Bomb," at a studio there before he completed his own production complex.
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The next scene begins with a title card reading July 21, 1945, in White Sands, New Mexico, and the first detonation of the atomic bomb.
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"[Former President Harry] Truman understood that not using the atomic bomb would have condemned millions of service members to death or debilitating injury," he said.
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Like a lot of children of the 1950s, William Gibson grew up haunted by the specter of the atomic bomb, and enthralled by science fiction stories.
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Rather than drop the first atomic bomb on Japan, the team behind the project prepare to drop it on Berlin, and change the course of history.
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American scientists working on the Manhattan Project had successfully tested a working atomic bomb in July of 19453, after the surrender of Nazi Germany in May.
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For instance, the Atomic Energy Commission yanked the security clearance of J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, because of his suspected ties to communism.
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In return, Iran accepted restrictions on its nuclear activities, increasing the time it would need to produce an atomic bomb if it chose to do so.
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Instead, the episode jumps back more than half a century to the first atomic bomb test, heralding one of the year's weirdest half-hours of television.
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Over the next few years, it earned 10 battle stars and contributed right up to the end of the war by delivering the atomic bomb parts.
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Obama's visit to Hiroshima on Friday will be the first by a serving U.S. president to the city devastated by a U.S. atomic bomb on Aug.
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Designers can easily increase the destructive power of an atomic bomb by putting at its core a small amount of tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen.
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The woman who forgave a pilot who flew the plane that dropped the atomic bomb because she recognized that what she really hated was war itself.
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Nagasaki Journal NAGASAKI, Japan — When Miyako Jodai was 6 years old, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on her hometown, the port city of Nagasaki.
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During Obama's trip to Asia, he will become the first sitting president to visit Hiroshima, Japan, since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb there in 1945.
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Neutrons behave in complicated ways in a nuclear reactor or atomic bomb, and that behavior has major implications for how powerful the reaction or explosion is.
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Following World War II, many Americans were anxious about the post-war economy, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, McCarthyism, and the emerging civil rights movement.
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Three days later a second, more powerful atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, and Japan surrendered, bringing World War II to an end.
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The crew of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay was among the few to witness the first use of the atomic bomb on August 6, 1945.
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Albert Einstein was famously a pacifist, but he signed a letter to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 urging him to develop the atomic bomb.
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The nuclear production complex called the Hanford Site was a crucial part of the Manhattan Project, the U.S. government's secret program that produced the atomic bomb.
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Researchers estimated the explosion was as powerful as a medium-size hydrogen bomb and several hundred times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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Some experts have suggested it was perhaps a boosted fission weapon, which more complex than a conventional atomic bomb but less powerful than a thermonuclear device.
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American scientists working on the Manhattan Project had successfully tested a working atomic bomb in July of 19453 after the surrender of Nazi Germany in May.
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Children were taught "duck and cover" techniques, which typically meant hiding under their desks as if that would save them from an atomic bomb landing nearby.
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Then, just five months later, the three Allied leaders learned that the United States had tested an atomic bomb; within weeks two were dropped on Japan.
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A few years later, Las Vegas introduced the "Miss Atomic Bomb" competition, combining two of Nevada's best-known qualities: its early nuclear tests and pinup girls.
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A few years later, Las Vegas introduced the "Miss Atomic Bomb" competition, combining two things Nevada was known for: its early nuclear tests and pinup girls.
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The German atomic bomb effort had been slowed to the point that it would never be finished in time to influence the outcome of the war.
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The Soviets conducted their first atomic bomb test in 1949 and started to intercept aircraft heading toward its borders in part to keep that program secret.
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He was in the Nevada desert in 1952 to shoot atomic bomb tests and documented the effect of the tests on tanks positioned in the desert.
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The CBS polling found that men are much more likely to support having used the atomic bomb, with 2628 percent approving compared to 28503 percent disapproving.
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But it was Shaw's idea for a small-town drama built around the construction of the first atomic bomb that really gave Manhattan its greatest strengths.
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They built China's first atomic bomb, detonated in 218, then its first hydrogen bomb, tested in 2220, and they helped develop missiles to carry the warheads.
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When the computer scientist began his career at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the birthplace of the atomic bomb, the Cold War was trudging into its fifth decade.
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Not far from the test site of the first atomic bomb, high in the mountains above the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, sits Sunspot Observatory.
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An amphipodPhoto: Michal Maňas (Wikimedia Commons)Scientists found a radioactive signature of atomic bomb blasts in crustaceans living in the ocean's depths, according to a new paper.
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Great science fiction speaks to human truths and fears, from The Planet of the Apes' commentary on racism to Godzilla as a metaphor for the atomic bomb.
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South Korea's spy agency also cast doubt on the authenticity of the H-bomb, saying its neighbor may have tested an atomic bomb, The Associated Press reported.
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What kind of nuclear weapon, which is at least 100 times more powerful than an atomic bomb, did North Korea claim to have tested earlier this week?
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Three days later, an atomic bomb dropped on the city Nagasaki killed another 70,000 before Japan's surrender ended World War II.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
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Were that the case, Segrè and Hoerlin point out, it is possible that Hitler would have had an atomic bomb to use during the Second World War.
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They knew, however, that if they could perfect both the world's first ballistic missiles and win the race to an atomic bomb, they would become virtually unassailable.
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Unlike other epic scientific advances—like the 1945 explosion of the first atomic bomb in New Mexico—the immediate effect of genetic editing technology is not dangerous.
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Actors, one realizes, like to work, which is why "Miss Atomic Bomb" leaves one very much admiring the players even as one remains mystified by the play.
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Hiroshi Harada, a former head of the atomic bomb museum that US Secretary of State John Kerry visited last month, was six when the bomb was dropped.
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In 2013, Dr. Shimomura went to Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, the birthplace of the atomic bomb, to give a talk about green fluorescent protein.
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One of the streets, Trinity Drive, is named after the Trinity test, when the world's first atomic bomb exploded in 1945, some 200 miles to the south.
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But when 164 centrifuges are arranged in cascades, with one stage of enrichment feeding into the next, enough uranium can be enriched to produce an atomic bomb.
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Think about it: An atomic bomb kills a whole bunch of people all at once, but a bioweapon kills more slowly, turning your own body against you.
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This new organization -- sometimes compared to the Manhattan Project of World War II that developed the atomic bomb -- was called JIEDDO, or the Joint IED Defeat Organization.
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"If the whole General Motors central organization should be hit by an atomic bomb, Pontiac could go on just exactly the same," Sloan boasted to a reporter.
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The 2015 deal aimed to extend the time Iran would need to build an atomic bomb, if it chose to, to a year from a few months.
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They could potentially carry nuclear warheads, according to Siegfried S. Hecker, emeritus director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, birthplace of the atomic bomb.
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Conner's masterpiece—and the cornerstone of "It's All True"—is "Crossroads" (1976), a meditation on the atomic bomb, one of the darkest truths of the twentieth century.
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Each Bulava can carry a bomb yielding 100 to 150 kilotons, which is approximately 10 times more powerful than the Little Boy atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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A period piece set in the '40s, its two seasons tell a single, compelling story about the Manhattan Project and the construction of the first atomic bomb.
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It is generally believed that North Korea does have the ability to manufacture an atomic bomb but it's unclear if it is capable of building a hydrogen bomb.
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While his travel plan has not been announced, Japanese media said the visit would include Nagasaki, Hiroshima, where the first atomic bomb was dropped, as well as Tokyo.
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The 2015 accord lifted international sanctions against Iran in return for Tehran limiting its nuclear energy program to ensure it cannot be put to developing an atomic bomb.
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It's interesting because you don't hear about that much the atomic bomb, but it changed the world in so many ways, and it wasn't really that long ago.
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The deal—officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action—places significant and verifiable constraints on Iran's nuclear activities, effectively blocking its pathway to an atomic bomb.
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Related: A Guide to Nuclear Detonation at Tribeca Film Festival How To Build An Atomic Bomb (With CGI) 6 Artists Who Aren't Afraid to Work with Radioactive Materials
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" The M.I.T. edition appends, here, a footnote: "The remorse Victor expresses is reminiscent of J. Robert Oppenheimer's sentiments when he witnessed the unspeakable power of the atomic bomb. . . .
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He also laid a wreath at the cenotaph in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, which commemorates the victims of the atomic bomb the United States dropped there in 1945.
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New Mexico is perhaps most well known for the town of Los Alamos, where the Manhattan Project and development of the atomic bomb during World War II ocuurred.
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Last year, North Korea conducted its fourth and fifth atomic bomb tests and claimed a series of technical breakthroughs in its efforts to develop long-range nuclear missiles.
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SANTA FE — The lights of Los Alamos, the birthplace of the atomic bomb, can be seen at night from the idyllic open-air theater of Santa Fe Opera.
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Our perception of the film's imagery — slow-motion replays of US atomic bomb testing off the Bikini atoll — is decisively affected by the swirl of its magnetic sounds.
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"The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base," President Harry Truman told the nation by radio on August 9, 1945.
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These archetypes of conceptual painting, accompanied, too, by Kawara's nearly unknown early prints of atomic bomb victims, have never appeared more operatic and ghoulish than they do here.
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TOKYO — Every year in early August, Japanese politicians and peace activists converge on Hiroshima to commemorate the day when the city was devastated by an American atomic bomb.
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When American pilots dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, it destroyed Urakami Cathedral, then the largest cathedral in East Asia, and killed about 8,000 Catholics in the area.
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Iran's recent breach of the limits that the agreement had placed on its uranium enrichment has raised fears that it could be close to building an atomic bomb.
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The Manhattan Project, the U.S. code name for the development of the first atomic bomb, is widely credited with ending the war in the Pacific Theater in 85033.
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During that investigation, from the back of a smoky bar in Vienna, we extracted the story that Libya had obtained an early Chinese blueprint for an atomic bomb.
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The United States tested a hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll in 1954 that was over 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
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But he would also differentiate himself from the couple, arguing that he should have been tried separately and that the charges against him didn't mention the atomic bomb.
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But the entire uprising is ultimately quelled by an atomic bomb: "Zombie tissue doesn't stand up well to radiation!" the comic's antagonist yells out in the final panels.
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Enriching nuclear material is a crucial step in harnessing the atom to generate electricity and in building the most devastating weapon humanity has ever devised, the atomic bomb.
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Now that we've typed all this, we realize that the stage is being set for Grindelwald's and Dumbeldore's duel being somehow related to the explosion of the atomic bomb.
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Scientists will have to examine the radioisotopes released into the atmosphere from the blast, to see whether those match the profile of an atomic bomb or a hydrogen bomb.
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NATO was initially largely a political alliance but that changed quickly after the Soviets detonated an atomic bomb in 1949, and the Korean War in broke out in 1950.
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On April 11, all of the G7 foreign ministers will visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and lay a wreath at the Memorial Cenotaph for the Atomic Bomb Victims.
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As the number of the hibakushas, or atomic bomb survivors, decrease due to old age, how are we remembering their stories, and which paths are we choosing to take?
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Analysts and officials in the region have said that North Korea may be bluffing or may have detonated a hybrid atomic bomb that it has been suspected of developing.
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Tanaka, like many hibakusha, or atomic bomb survivors, has strong and complicated feelings about President Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima this week — the first by a sitting US president.
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Netanyahu is vehemently opposed to a nuclear accord reached between Iran and six world powers in 2015, which he believes is insufficient to stop Tehran developing an atomic bomb.
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Just as the father of the atomic bomb, Robert Oppenheimer, said that "physicists have known sin," the antifa movement is the sin of academia in abandoning our core values.
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For some, that vision runs counter to the "never again" message inscribed on Hiroshima's war memorial, and symbolized by the skeletal atomic bomb dome preserved at ground zero nearby.
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President Obama will speak on Friday at the site where the United States first used an atomic bomb at the end of World War II. What should he say?
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The 20-megaton bomb, 5,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that levelled Hiroshima, was hauled aboard the submarine rescue ship Petrel for transport to the United States.
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The president did not apologize for the U.S.' decision to use an atomic bomb to end World War II in his visit to the memorial site in Hiroshima Friday.
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President Obama has no plans to apologize for the United States dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima when he visits Japan later this month, the White House said Tuesday.
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" Referring to the 73rd anniversary of the US dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, Zarif said, "today in 1945, US became 1st & only country to ever use nukes.
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It's amazing that "Miss Atomic Bomb" boasts the above-the-title talent that it does, starting with the plucky Ms. Andrews, who in the biggest role comes off best.
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Finally, Kim claims he has a hydrogen bomb, a far more powerful type of nuclear weapon than the run-of-the-mill atomic bomb we know he already has.
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" He said there was "no question (Saddam) hadn't given up on his nuclear program" and that the Iraqi leader was "hell-bent on achieving an atomic bomb, atomic capabilities.
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"We are living in 22014," said the adviser, Andrey Krutskikh, referring to the eve of the first Soviet atomic bomb test, in a speech reported by The Washington Post.
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For them, AI is a new technology and new technologies have come and gone since the invention of the atomic bomb but none have radically changed tactics or strategy.
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Plus, it featured a flame that had been lit from the ashes of the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bomb and had been burning as a signal of peace ever since.
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Just last month, a scheduled TV appearance featuring BTS was canceled because one member reportedly wore a shirt that included an image of the atomic bomb dropping on Japan.
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Stephen began reading scientific literature at age 10 and at 14 knew what direction his career would take after reading newspaper accounts of the atomic bomb attacks on Japan.
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The authors, along with Mr. Bermudez, were Jack Liu and Frank Pabian, a scientist at the Los Alamos weapons lab in New Mexico, the birthplace of the atomic bomb.
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North Korea announced that it had tested a hydrogen bomb, but seismic data suggested a far smaller explosion — possibly an atomic bomb with a bit of tritium at its core.
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Ethel Rosenberg's brother, David Greenglass, told investigators at the time that he saw Ethel typing up information on the Atomic Bomb that he received while working on the Manhattan Project.
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In January, the North Korean regime boasted that it had successfully carried out its first underground test of a hydrogen bomb, a weapon much more powerful than an atomic bomb.
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Atomic bomb survivors, have said an apology from Obama would be welcome but their priority is ridding the world of nuclear arms, a goal that seems as elusive as ever.
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"Many prominent scientists involved in research that led to the development of the atomic bomb expressed regret," said Al Teich, the former Director of Science and Policy programs as AAAS.
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Curated by ShiPu Wang, the exhibition presents a survey of Obata's artistic output from his early days as an illustrator in San Francisco to his reflections on the atomic bomb.
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Hydrogen bombs pack an explosion that can be more powerful than an atomic bomb as it uses a two-step process of fission and fusion that releases substantially more energy.
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Toshiki Fujimori, assistant secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo, an organization for atomic bomb victims who backed the landmark treaty expressed anxiety and disappointment with Tokyo for not endorsing the move.
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Now, it is not beyond possibility that he has an atomic bomb capable of yielding 53 kilotons which could be fitted to an ICBM with a range of 4,000 kilometers.
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The annual Pentagon release did not appear to be linked to President Obama's visit Friday to Hiroshima, Japan, which was destroyed by an American atomic bomb almost 13.33 years ago.
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For "Emperor of All Maladies," the one book that I particularly scoured for inspiration was Richard Rhodes's "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" — an epic account of the Manhattan Project.
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Andrey Krutskikh, the Kremlin's bombastic point-man on cyber-diplomacy issues, likened Russia's development of cyber-capabilities that year to the Soviet Union's first successful atomic bomb test in 1949.
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It was wonderful to be able to bring readers — if that's the right term — to wherever I was, interviewing an atomic bomb survivor or touring the peace park in Hiroshima.
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If all of those bombs were 15-kiloton weapons — the size of the "Little Boy" atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan — the researchers predict that 50 million people would die.
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The nightmare of push-button nuclear annihilation that has haunted us since the invention of the atomic bomb now has a parallel in the looming specter of large-scale cyberwarfare.
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The resulting blast was nevertheless about 30 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, according to NASA, with an accompanying shockwave that shattered windows in 7,2000 buildings.
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The resulting blast was nevertheless about 30 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, according to NASA, with an accompanying shockwave that shattered windows in 7,200 buildings.
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Joachim Ronneberg and his band of Norwegian saboteurs on skis effectively ended Hitler's dream of an atomic bomb when they blew up the factory in which it was being developed.
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Here, he wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt that brought about the effort known as the Manhattan Project, which would build history's most terrible weapon, the atomic bomb.
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A true hydrogen bomb, the fourth stage of development, works by positioning near the triggering atomic bomb a separate capsule that can hold a much larger amount of thermonuclear fuel.
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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, where the atomic bomb was dropped on the city, has a grave that holds "the remains of such victims as could be recovered" after the bombing.
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In response, Tehran has repeatedly moved beyond the limits that the agreement had placed on its uranium enrichment, raising fears that it could be close to building an atomic bomb.
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With Mariana Alfaro THE BIG IDEA: Secretary of War Henry Stimson and President Harry Truman agreed in 1945 that the United States should not drop an atomic bomb on Kyoto.
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The Russian leader noted that during Cold War times, the Soviet Union was behind the United States in designing the atomic bomb and building strategic bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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But in 1950 grand jury testimony released last year, Greenglass said he never spoke about the information on the atomic bomb with his sister, only her husband and his own wife.
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"The explosion unleashed an estimated 173 kilotons of energy, or more than 10 times the energy of the atomic bomb blast over Hiroshima during World War II," NASA said on Friday.
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One can understand the horrors of nuclear warfare by visiting the atomic bomb museums in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, listening to firsthand accounts of hibakushas, and reading archival documents from that period.
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He used the examples of the atomic bomb, which forever changed the way that physics was taught in universities, and dynamite, which made chemists aware of the consequences of their expertise.
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The US has assessed that North Korea's ICBMs work more often than not, but the country lacks a hydrogen bomb, which is many times as powerful as a regular atomic bomb.
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Though it's entirely the calendar's fault that this episode is last on my list, it's only appropriate to close said list — and this year — with the detonation of an atomic bomb.
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In 1982, a year after Feynman gave his quantum-computing lecture, he was touring the supercomputer facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he had worked on the first atomic bomb.
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He ended up working under the likes of Enrico Fermi and Edward Teller at Los Alamos, crunching the numbers that would help pave the way for Gadget, the first atomic bomb.
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No, the catch is this: Making a bomb—an atomic bomb or hydrogen bomb—isn't that difficult these days, if you've got billions of pounds and you make it a priority.
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Tensions have risen after North Korea conducted two missile tests in July which, like its five atomic bomb tests, were carried out in defiance of international pressure and United Nations resolutions.
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Diving under the desk was precisely what he'd been taught to do during atomic-bomb drills at that military boarding school where well-off parents sent their incorrigibles and slow learners.
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But Hiroshima — obliterated by an American atomic bomb 71 years ago, then rebuilt with a newly peaceful and prosperous country — is in many ways the heart of Japan's modern national identity.
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Close to 700,000 people a year visit the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, compared with nearly 1.5 million at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, where Mr. Obama will lay a wreath on Friday.
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"This year the president of the country that dropped the atomic bomb visited Hiroshima, and yesterday the prime minister made remarks of consolation at Pearl Harbor," Inada told reporters at Yasukuni.
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He failed, for example, to brief his new vice president, Harry Truman, about such critical issues as the development of the atomic bomb and the West's unraveling relationship with the Soviets.
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The researchers also mentioned atomic bomb testing fallout, particularly ingesting or inhaling radioactive substances, as a possible factor, and they mentioned traffic-related air pollution in addition to cell phone use.
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This is how I felt watching a sampling of around 250 newly released videos of US atomic bomb tests uploaded to YouTube this week by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
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Stock footage of an atomic bomb exploding abruptly cuts to a stylized female face with a head shaped like a mushroom cloud, her long neck mirroring the stem of the blast.
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Defenders of dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki insist that the bombings saved the lives of US and Japanese soldiers, by eliminating the need for a costly land invasion.
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"We will not seek an atomic bomb," he added, but "if a crazy state named the Zionist regime makes any mistake we will raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground."
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In their newest report, the atomic inspectors who monitor Iran say it has enriched more than 1,000 kilograms of uranium, roughly enough to eventually create the fuel for one atomic bomb.
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But the regime's most dangerous card—a nuclear programme that may have left it months away from the ability to manufacture an atomic bomb—was removed from the deck in 22012.
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And with the North Koreans now capable, by some estimates, of producing an atomic bomb every sixth or seventh week, the cost of reaching any new agreement would be even higher.
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AI is not like the atomic bomb, but it is a revolutionary enabler, something like electricity, and it is being intensely explored by both the US and its great power rivals.
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"They've done five tests in 10 years," said Siegfried S. Hecker, a Stanford professor who once directed the Los Alamos weapons laboratory in New Mexico, a birthplace of the atomic bomb.
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In its eighth episode — a detour to 1950s America in the wake of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — the series reveals that detonating the atomic bomb unleashed a primal evil into the world.
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It's also true that she first heard these tales before the atomic bomb was invented, before we identified DNA or could launch satellites, before Google made answers so easy to find.
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It was also at this place that Bob (my friend) brought down the house by correctly identifying the Japanese rock band playing on the big-screen TV as the Atomic Bomb Masturbation.
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RELATED: In Hiroshima, Trump's nuclear comments reopen old wounds Kerry laid a wreath at the city's atomic bomb memorial in April and visited the Bomb Dome, over which the A-bomb exploded.
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"The dropping of the atomic bomb, the ushering in of nuclear weapons, was an inflection point in modern history," Obama said during a news conference at the G-7 Summit in Japan.
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Bridenstine pointed to the meteorite that exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in 693, which had "30 times the energy of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima" and injured around 1,500 people.
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Obama said in an interview with the NHK broadcaster on Sunday his visit would emphasize friendly ties between former enemies, and he reiterated he would not apologize for the atomic bomb attack.
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That all changed in 1949, when Russian scientists led by nuclear physics genius Igor Kurchatov detonated a 22-kiloton atomic bomb code-named First Lightning at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan.
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And many who questioned the decision to drop the atomic bomb have asked why it was not first exploded in an uninhabited place to demonstrate the dimensions of this new weapon's power.
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Many of the nation's residents suffered illnesses attributed to radiation, and some islands were obliterated by explosions many times more powerful than the one caused by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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We won World War II with our extraordinary capacity for mass production, our extraordinary capacity to mobilize bullets, airplanes, liberty ships, soldier uniforms, and extraordinary technologies like radar and the atomic bomb.
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"There's no other way to describe it: It was an atomic bomb," Benjamín Torres Gotay, a prominent Puerto Rican journalist, wrote in El Nuevo Día of the scoop published by his competitors.
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But following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 and the first Soviet atomic bomb test in 1949, American fears of nuclear radiation and communism began to manifest in zombies.
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Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952) revolves around an evil alien force that steals atomic bomb plans from the Soviets, with the intention of using its force to swap orbital positions with Earth.
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And, although undoubtedly many, many American lives were saved by bringing the war to an early end, there is no denying the horrific impact of an atomic bomb dropped on thousands of civilians.
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On the final day of the summit in Japan, Obama and Abe will visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park near the spot where a U.S. warplane dropped an atomic bomb 71 years ago.
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Intelligence is a little spotty on the exact details of what the attack will look like, whether it will be an atomic bomb in New York or a hydrogen bomb in San Francisco.
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Experts warn higher enrichment and a growing stockpile narrow the one-year window Iran would need to have enough material for an atomic bomb, something Iran denies it wants but the deal prevented.
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January 7, 2016 What is a hydrogen bomb, what makes it different from an atomic bomb, and what's the significance of a North Korean claim that the nation recently tested a nuclear weapon?
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese baseball team Chunichi Dragons are trying to identify fans who were filmed taunting the rival Hiroshima Carp club with references to the atomic bomb dropped on the city in 1945.
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In 1940, the French army was still arguing about whether industrializing tanks production or not, while the Germans already had the V1 rockets in mind, and the Americans were conceiving the atomic bomb.
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Hydrogen bombs — which CNN notes are far stronger than the Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II — are much more powerful than the weapons North Korea has tested in the past.
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Based on this trailer, which has just about every apocalypse trope in the book, the end of the world will happen thanks to an atomic bomb, which leaves the world littered with radiation.
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Investigators at the Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, established in 1962 in Nagasaki, Japan, have followed survivors of the bomb we dropped in 1945 to study late effects of radiation on the human body.
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The plutonium manufactured at the site was used in the first nuclear bomb tested at Trinity in New Mexico, as well as in Fat Man, the atomic bomb detonated over Nagasaki in 1945.
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In the oral history interview, Dr. Hornig recalled that her husband had babysat the first atomic bomb overnight before it was tested at dawn in the desert at Alamogordo on July 16, 1945.
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"But none of the men were there for history," Neal Bascomb said in perhaps the most definitive book on the raid, "The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb" (2016).
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"Better Change Your Mind," a song from "Atomic Bomb," was reissued on the 2001 compilation "Nigeria 70: The Definitive Story of 1970s Funky Lagos" and sparked increasing interest among musicians and disc jockeys.
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A large space rock smashing into a humongous space rock also differs from a missile onslaught, or an atomic bomb exploding on or beneath an asteroid's surface while a popular rock band plays.
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It's made of shellac, as were many transcription discs from the late 1920s to the early 1930s, and is incredibly fragile — so it resides in the library's most secure, atomic bomb–proof vault.
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It's interesting ... check out this video of President Harry Truman back in August 1945 -- the day we dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima -- when he used language almost identical in tone to Trump's.
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Pyongyang's latest provocation comes less than two weeks after North Korea claims it successfully tested a thermonuclear device, which experts say is seven times stronger than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 2250.
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Reasons not to apologize Officials say Obama won't apologize for the decision to use an atomic bomb, which many historians insist was necessary to hasten the end of World War II and save lives.
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They started using aircraft called sniffer planes, and just two years later, in September 1949, one on patrol between Alaska and Japan picked up nuclear debris left behind after Russia's first atomic bomb test.
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It uses the heat, radiation and pressure from an atomic bomb to fuse atoms together, reproducing the fundamental energy source in the universe -- the fusion reactions that power our sun and all other stars.
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Atomic bomb blast in the Yucca Flat Wash (Arizona), 3/17/1953Nuclear blasts aren't ordinary bombs, of course—the largest nuclear explosion ever, Russia's Tsar Bomba, yielded 50 megatons of TNT worth of energy.
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Most famously, Truman knew little about development of an atomic bomb by the United States until after he was sworn in as president, when he was informed by Stimson, now the secretary of war.
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People attend the Peace Message Lantern Floating Ceremony — held to console the souls of the atomic bomb victims on the 72nd anniversary of the bombings — at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Aug. 6.
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The period was marked, in particular, by the Communist Party's unexpected victory over the American-backed Nationalists in China, and by President Harry Truman's announcement that the Soviet Union had detonated an atomic bomb.
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Made of enamel, foam, rubber, wire, and painted charcoal, Ferrari's cloud is arresting in its size and literal in its subject: a memory of an atomic bomb that few global citizens can ever forget.
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HAWKER, Australia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Enice Marsh remembers the black clouds of "poison stuff" that billowed from the northwest after British atomic bomb tests in the 100s spread fallout across swathes of South Australia.
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The National Cancer Institute says its long-anticipated study into the cancer risks of New Mexico residents living near the site of the world's first atomic bomb test likely will be published in 2019.
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In this July 6, 1945, file photo, scientists and workmen rig the world's first atomic bomb to raise it up onto a 100 foot tower at the Trinity bomb test site near Alamagordo, N.M.
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"It was the biggest jolt you could imagine," says Kent, recalling to VICE the moment—20153 years ago this past Saturday—that the first atomic bomb was detonated in the nearby white sands desert.
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She worked as an accountant and studied the words of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. As the 50th anniversary of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki approached, Sachiko found she had something to say.
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On the way to what is now known as the Shelter Island Conference, the men were given celebrity-style police escorts, tributes to the work many of them had done on the atomic bomb.
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We've always loved fantasizing about the end of the world — especially in the past 70-plus years, as the invention of the atomic bomb actually gave us the means to bring that end about.
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" It refers not to when the photograph was made but to when Major Eatherly flew weather reconnaissance over Hiroshima and then gave the O.K. to drop the first atomic bomb, code-named "Little Boy.
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And the rationale for the extraordinary outlay of public money and industrial effort was creation of an immense arsenal of deadly weapons, including the most expensive and powerful of them all, the atomic bomb.
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When the Soviets executed their first atomic-bomb test, in 1949, the suspicion was that they couldn't have gotten the bomb so quickly on their own; there had to be spies in high places.
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Although the odds of a direct hit on the planet any time soon are slim, even a small asteroid the size of a house could explode with as much energy as an atomic bomb.
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The Indianapolis was the cruiser that in 1945 carried parts of the atomic bomb that was to be dropped on Hiroshima to Tinian Island in the Pacific, where the weapon was to be assembled.
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Read more:A mathematical technique originally developed to help build the atomic bomb is now used to figure out how much CEO pay packages are worthElon Musk said in court he&aposs low on cash.
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" For example, Mr. Albright said, new ambiguity could darken views in the West on how long it would take Iran to make enough fuel for a single atomic bomb — what nuclear experts call "breakout.
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The nation lived without the council for more than 150 years, until World War II ended and the immense responsibilities of managing the world — and the atomic bomb — descended on President Harry S. Truman.
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The Rosenbergs, he said, had enabled the Soviet Union to develop an atomic bomb years earlier than the United States had anticipated, leading to Communist aggression in Korea, where American troops were then fighting.
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No matter what happens with the two Coopers, or with Billy and Tina, or with the two Lodges, or with the detonation of the atomic bomb, you'll never have all the answers you want.
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We don't learn in school about Elizabeth Graves, who helped to create the first atomic bomb, just as we don't learn about Cecilia Payne, who discovered that hydrogen is the building block of the universe.
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In the early 2000s, the United States made its nuclear weapons program a priority with the establishment of the Manhattan Project, a top secret research initiative that would eventually yield the world's first atomic bomb.
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In 1986, explosions destroyed a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, releasing about 400 times more radioactive fallout than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima , according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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He's argued, for instance, that there was a silver lining to the atomic bomb damage in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Outside of the immediate blast zone, he believes, the Japanese benefitted from the low-level radiation.
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The closest we've gotten to a technology that has cared people into peace was the atomic bomb, which caused the US and the Soviet Union to glare at each other for nearly half a century.
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Combining a gift for shrewd social commentary with far-reaching prophecy, he foresaw inventions such as television and air-conditioning, as well as coining the terms "war of the worlds", "atomic bomb" and "time machine".
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There, he'll stop by a memorial to the victims of the atomic bomb that was dropped on the city during World War II. Here in New York, we have a reminder of that destructive moment.
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"We are not interested in the atomic bomb, but we are increasing our missile capabilities in other fields so that Israel cannot sleep well," he was quoted as saying by semi-official ISNA News Agency.
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The trip to the site where the U.S. used an atomic bomb at the end of World War II carries symbolism for Mr. Obama, who won't revisit the decision to attack that city and Nagasaki.
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Under the deal, most international sanctions were lifted in return for Iran undertaking long-term curbs on its nuclear program, which the West suspected was aimed at developing the means to build an atomic bomb.
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The public was routinely deceived about the atomic bomb tests, the downwinders, the human radiation experiments, Three Mile Island and contamination at hundreds of places like Rocky Flats, Santa Susana, Uravan, Rancho Seco and Hanford.
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Miller was a renowned scientist who helped build the first atomic bomb, so presumably, his nightmares were haunted by many a restless spirit, and not just those he had disinterred to add to his collection.
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In the early 1940s, the United States made its nuclear weapons program a priority with the establishment of the Manhattan Project, a top secret research initiative that would eventually yield the world's first atomic bomb.
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"If you reduce your contact to other people, the virus can no longer travel ... One infected will infect one or two other people, so it's like an atomic bomb, it's an exponential curve," he said.
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The nuclear deal, which was intended to keep Iran from building an atomic bomb, imposed limits on its ability to enrich uranium — the process of transforming the element into fuel for nuclear reactors or weapons.
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Robert and Michael Meeropol have been advocating on behalf of their parents for over 63 years since they were convicted of providing secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union and executed by electric chair.
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These are the kinda questions posed in Corporate Warfare, a digital illustration series by the Foreal design studio that equates the power and impact of big brand corporations to that of a torpedo or atomic bomb.
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This doesn't include the two bombs the US dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima during World War II. On July 16, 1945, the US tested its first atomic bomb at the Trinity Site in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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Suspected of providing classified information — including details on the building of an atomic bomb — to the Soviet government for decades, Joan is interrogated and relives the moments in her life that led her to commit treason.
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There are parallels to the pursuit of the atomic bomb during the Second World War: the weapons helped bring an end to the conflict, but introduced new and terrifying dangers to the world with their invention.
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"He will not revisit the decision to use the atomic bomb at the end of World War II," Benjamin J. Rhodes, Mr. Obama's deputy national security adviser for strategic communication, said in a post on Medium.
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Cordova believes her father, who died in 2013 after suffering from multiple bouts of cancer, was affected by the atomic bomb Trinity Test in New Mexico since he lived in nearby Tularosa, N.M. as a child.
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Some background: In recent years, legislators on both sides of the aisle have become increasingly concerned about global commerce in highly enriched uranium, the same material that fueled the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
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But since then, the hubris of "playing God" has been freely invoked in debates over the atomic bomb, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, nanotechnology and just about any other technology that threatens to overrun its human creators.
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Even if evacuation orders come down, Thomas doesn't plan to leave, she said, even though Dorian has her mind on Hurricane Andrew in 1992, which left Homestead, Florida, looking like an atomic bomb had gone off.
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Other countries dismissed the claim for lack of evidence, but experts have said that the North may have tested a "boosted" atomic bomb that used tritium, a common enhancement technique that produces a higher explosive yield.
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On this day in 1945, President Harry S. Truman received his first comprehensive briefing on the secret Manhattan Project, under which U.S. scientists and engineers were well on the way to building the first atomic bomb.
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The world's first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexican desert — a result of a highly secretive effort code-named the Manhattan Project, whose nerve center lay nearby in Los Alamos.
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In 2006, Mr. Taniguchi was appointed chairman of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council, and in 2010 he gave a speech at the United Nations in New York during a meeting to consider a nonproliferation treaty.
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What sets Sheinkin's work apart is his willingness to tackle horrific chapters in United States history — the creation of the atomic bomb, the Vietnam War — with a candor that is unusually respectful of young readers' intelligence.
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" This year, Kim said, North Korea completed its "state nuclear force and thus became the full-fledged nuclear power which possesses the delivery means of various ranges, including the atomic bomb, H-bomb and intercontinental ballistic rockets.
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The juxtaposition of a Japanese dance form born from the destruction of the atomic bomb, together with post-industrial music and naked figures in natural settings, are perhaps part of what make this video so wonderfully unsettling.
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Opinion: Nuclear terrorist threat bigger than you think "He will not revisit the decision to use the atomic bomb at the end of World War II," Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser, wrote on Medium Tuesday.
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John Kerry calls Trump nuclear policy 'absurd' Obama and his aides have long debated making a presidential stop in either Hiroshima or Nagasaki, where the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb three days after the Hiroshima attack.
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"Old Man Atom" (1948) Originally a talking blues song written by Vern Partlow, "Old Man Atom" became — spurred by fears over the recent detonation of the atomic bomb — one of the biggest novelty hits of the '40s.
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Obama will visit Japan this week for a Group of Seven nations summit and he will also make a historic visit to the city of Hiroshima, which the U.S. military attacked with an atomic bomb in 1945.
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A Pew Research Center poll published in April 2015 showed that 56 percent of those surveyed agreed that "using the atomic bomb on Japanese cities in 1945 was justified," while 783 percent thought it was unjustified. 3.
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This is one of only two homes that remain from Doomtown, a fake American community that was destroyed by an atomic bomb test in 2575 at the Nevada National Security Site, 575 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
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This is one of only two homes that remain from Doomtown, a fake American community that was destroyed by an atomic bomb test in 1955 at the Nevada National Security Site, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
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In fact, some of the material from the Hanford site was used in the atomic bomb dropped in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, leading to its surrender that ended World War II. Plutonium is incredibly toxic to humans.
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Obama is going to Japan for a Group of Seven summit and also will become the first U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, a city destroyed by a U.S. atomic bomb 71 years ago in World War Two.
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Hanford, which sits nearly 200 miles southeast of Seattle, was established by the Manhattan Project during World War II to make plutonium for nuclear weapons, including the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
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At Kerry's suggestion, the ministers also made an impromptu visit to the Atomic Bomb Dome, the remains of the only structure left standing near the hypocenter of the bomb explosion and now a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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While President Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima may have benefited me personally, I was and still am horrified by our incineration of the city and the loss of so many innocent Japanese civilians.
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President Obama on Friday called for a world without nuclear weapons during the first-ever visit to Hiroshima by a sitting U.S. president, almost 71 years after U.S. forces dropped a devastating atomic bomb on the city.
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Yet these concerns recall the saga of AQ Khan, a senior Pakistani nuclear scientist — and father of the country's atomic bomb — who admitted to sharing nuclear secrets with North Korea and Iran in the 1980s and 1990s.
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It looks like someone dropped an atomic bomb containing trampled McDonalds packaging, and students in various forms of formal dress are streaming past me in the hundreds, necking and then tossing "naggins" (200 mL bottle of spirits).
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Indonesia's Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) said in statement the energy released by Friday's massive quake was around 19000 times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in World War Two.
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Yet the magnitude of change that occurred between when America galloped into World War I on horses and dropped the atomic bomb feels more significant than that undergone since the first dot-com domain name was registered.
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Los Alamos: Newly released information on a recently discovered fourth Soviet spy at the wartime New Mexico lab, home to the U.S. atomic bomb program, indicates that his espionage may have been the most damaging of all.
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But it has already breached many of the restrictions meant to increase the amount of time Tehran would need to accumulate enough fissile material for an atomic bomb from two to three months to about a year.
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More likely, experts said, Mr. Kim's scientists had created a "boosted" atomic bomb in which a tiny bit of thermonuclear fuel resulted in a slightly higher explosive yield but fell well short of a true hydrogen bomb.
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The funeral took place hours after Iran announced it would no longer abide by any uranium-enrichment limits imposed by the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, setting off fears that it could begin production of an atomic bomb.
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"It was like an atomic bomb went off," said Sherrie Roberts, who was on the Abaco Islands when Dorian struck a week ago as a Category 5 monster, then lingered for days over the same wrecked places.
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The then-Soviet Union attacked them in 1945 nine days after the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan at Nagasaki and a devastated Japan was in little position to put up much of a defense.
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And thanks to a wealth of sci-fi about a nuclear age yet to come, the public knew President Truman was talking about when, in 1945, he announced that the U.S. had dropped an atomic bomb in Japan.
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An expedition crew led by a billionaire philanthropist announced Saturday they had found the missing wreckage of the USS Indianapolis, a World War II ship that helped carry parts of the atomic bomb but sank 72 years ago.
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Abe's visit will come seven months after Obama became the first serving U.S. president to visit the Japanese city of Hiroshima, where the United States dropped an atomic bomb in the closing days of the war in 1945.
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The deal between Iran and six world powers lifted most international sanctions in 2016 in return for Tehran curbing its nuclear program, under strict surveillance by the U.N. nuclear watchdog, to stockpile enriched uranium for an atomic bomb.
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The web is atwitter in response to North Korea's claim to have exploded a hydrogen bomb — essentially an atomic bomb on steroids — and the international community is wondering what to make of this latest development in Hermit Kingdom.
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Proving that the blast was a hydrogen bomb would depend on the presence of the hydrogen isotope tritium, which would set it apart from a fission atomic bomb and which in turn would require the presence of lithium.
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Despite claims overnight that it had done so, South Korean experts believe it may actually have been a six-kiloton TNT device, not even the 15-kiloton yield that was seen with the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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North Korea has a long history of bellicose rhetoric against the United States and its Asian allies but its assertion that it had tested a hydrogen device, much more powerful than an atomic bomb, came as a surprise.
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At the time, Einstein was quickly becoming one of the most famous men in the world—though his esteem would only grow, with his later legacy including his work on quantum mechanics and somewhat infamously the atomic bomb.
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European powers are scrambling to save the deal - under which Iran curbed its nuclear program in return for a lifting of international sanctions - as they regard it as the best chance to stop Tehran developing an atomic bomb.
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The Hawaii visit on Wednesday Japan time followed Obama's May visit to Hiroshima, the first by a serving president to the spot where the United States dropped the first atomic bomb in the final days of the war.
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Her research led her to Monsanto, a large player in the GM market, and particularly how the company contributed to the Vietnam War and World War II, such as its role in the development of the atomic bomb.
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Kuwata, who was born in Hiroshima in 21967 (decades after the United States dropped an atomic bomb over his hometown) is working through a new kind of postwar anxiety that encompasses his country's recent natural and social disasters.
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Some experts say that not until the first atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima did the world witness a man-made explosion that produced more casualties, covered a larger area, destroyed more property and produced more explosive force.
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BV:I do think about Robert Oppenheimer, who talked about his regret after the atomic bomb, and just how that technology had such unintended and profound consequences that he did not imagine, and how that kind of destroyed him.
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European powers are scrambling to save the deal - under which Iran curbed its nuclear programme in return for a lifting of international sanctions - as they regard it as the best chance to stop Tehran developing an atomic bomb.
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But it also had historical roots in Europe and colonial appropriation, and coincided with Einstein's theory of relativity, Saussure's lectures on structural linguistics, two world wars, the atomic bomb and the breakdown of Western ideas about human subjectivity.
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Just before the Indianapolis sank, it had completed a top secret mission: shipping parts of the atomic bomb, code-named "Little Boy," that was later dropped on Hiroshima from San Francisco to Tinian Island in the Western Pacific.
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When, after two other music-theater projects, he returned to grand opera in the early 2000s with "Doctor Atomic," about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atomic bomb, he hoped to collaborate again with Ms. Goodman.
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Wen's team estimated that the energy released in the latest test was about 108.3 kilotons of TNT, or 7.8 times the amount released by the atomic bomb dropped by the US on the Japanese city Hiroshima in 1945.
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I found more such communities as I moved south on Interstate 23 through Tennessee to Oak Ridge, home of the Manhattan Project facilities where the enriched uranium for the "Little Boy" atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was produced.
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As I explain in my book, "Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation," the US atomic bomb effort used enriched uranium — uranium that has an increased concentration of the easily split uranium-235 — while the Germans used unenriched uranium.
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An extended stretch of this week's episode takes place in the wake of a 1945 atomic bomb test in White Sands, N.M., and thrusts the audience deep into the physical, emotional and metaphorical space of a mushroom cloud.
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Once the world's biggest air base, Tinian island is known for being the launching point for the atomic bomb attacks against Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan on August 6 and 9, 1945, according to the Atomic Heritage Foundation.
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"It was like an atomic bomb went off," said Sherrie Roberts, who survived on the Abaco Islands when Dorian struck almost a week ago as a Category 5 monster, then lingered for days over the same wrecked places.
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" He also said there was no Japanese effort to seek a U.S. apology, "nor is there any interest in reopening the question of blame for the sequence of events that culminated in the use of the atomic bomb.
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Such a banal simulation, however, would belie the reality that the preceding megathrust earthquake—measuring 9.1M on the Richter scale—released the energy equivalent of roughly 45,000 of the "Little Boy" atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
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A country can enrich uranium to produce fuel for its nuclear reactors, but that same process can also be used to make an atomic bomb — and that has US lawmakers on both sides of the aisle very concerned.
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The hibakusha, or survivors of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, which killed more than 22002,22002 and left tens of thousands of others with horrendous injuries, have been the most ardent proponents of nuclear abolition.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Tremors caused by a suspected nuclear test in North Korea were at least ten times as powerful as the last time Pyongyang exploded an atomic bomb a year ago, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said on Sunday.
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Even if Iran does not withdraw from the NPT, it has indicated that it will probably ramp up enrichment of uranium, strictly limited under the deal to help allay fears it could be used to produce atomic bomb material.
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This is a bit of a stretch for a schlocky roadside attraction, since "Hated in the Nation" ends with the ADIs killing nearly 400,000 people — it's like putting Lizzie Borden's axe next to fragments of a detonated atomic bomb.
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Details: The fireball — indeed, the scientific name of these radiant meteors — released an estimated 173 kilotons of energy — roughly 10 times the energy of an atomic bomb, however given its altitude and remote destination, posed no peril on Earth.
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Kaptain Kristian's latest video examines the original Gojira (Godzilla in Japanese) movie and what the monster represented (psst, the atomic bomb) and how the Japanese people coped with living in a world that could be shredded at any time.
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The nuclear deal aimed to extend the amount of time it would theoretically take Iran to produce enough fissile material for an atomic bomb — so-called breakout time — from several months to a minimum of one year until 2025.
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It was called "the world's first nuclear disaster" by Glenn Seaborg, one of the fathers of the atomic bomb, and the United States government would detonate another 215 of its kind over the Micronesian archipelago between 21957 and 21968.
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The calamity—and others, like the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, or the 2011 accident in Fukushima—have called international attention to the dangers of nuclear weapons, while inspiring artists and activists alike to create new works.
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But most of a multiplayer match was spent as a "pilot," fleet-footed soldiers that fought at ground-level — when they weren't leaping into the air, running on walls, and climbing Titans like Major Kong riding the atomic bomb.
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WASHINGTON — For decades, visitors to the ghostly dome in Hiroshima that stands like a sole survivor from the dropping of the atomic bomb there more than 70 years ago entered a world that mixed unspeakable tragedy with historical amnesia.
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His reluctance to acknowledge that fact ended up making life extremely difficult for his unprepared successor, who was forced to make crucial decisions about both the atomic bomb and the Soviets in the first few months of his presidency.
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This week, Earth had a close call with what some scientists call a "city-killer" asteroid, which, if it had made impact, would have hit the planet with 2628 times the power of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
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The nuclear deal aimed to extend the amount of time it would theoretically take Iran to produce enough fissile material for an atomic bomb - so-called breakout time - from several months to a minimum of one year until 2025.
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After opening in Los Angeles in 1969, Heinar Kipphardt's "In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer," a dramatization of the moral struggle faced by the chief architect of the atomic bomb, moved to Lincoln Center, with Mr. Davidson directing.
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The next year, after the earthquakes jolted Nepal and buried climbers on Mount Everest, another avalanche with about half the force of an atomic bomb also killed hundreds of people in the village of Langtang, a popular tourist destination.
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And while Louisa Hall's "Trinity" would seem to be more traditional than any of those — it's a biographical, historical novel about Robert Oppenheimer and his work on the atomic bomb — even that goes about it in a nontraditional way.
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You don't have time to react to an atomic bomb; with a disease like glanders, all you have is time to react I think the involvement of bioweapons decidedly nods toward how this season is more personal than political.
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The height of this approach came at the end of season three, when the show's worst character (whiny child Zack) blew up the Statue of Liberty with an atomic bomb — something that apparently triggered a global nuclear war somehow.
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Sunday night's "Episode 502" signaled which coupling will be the final atomic bomb to go off in the winding life of the Solloway family: the baffling pairing of Helen Solloway (Maura Tierney) and superstar action hero Sasha (Claes Bang).
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A mathematical technique originally developed to help build the atomic bomb is now used to figure out how much CEO pay packages are worth Trump boasts the US economy is the best it&aposs ever been under his watch.
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Those were the only reported combat deaths from any cause on the U.S. mainland during World War II. Months before an atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima, the United States and Japan were locked in the final stages of the war.
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Flex introduced the atomic bomb first, and in the beginning, reserved as a signpost that he was going to break a major rap record live on Hot 2105.1—Nas "Hate Me Now" or Fat Joe "My Lifestyle" for example.
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The history of nuclear waste in the St. Louis area dates back to the U.S. atomic bomb program from World War Two and spans an array of nuclear processing facilities, storage sites, material transfers and suspected leaks along the way.
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Peter Kuran, a visual effects artist who directed and produced the 1995 film Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie, told me that government officials had asked him how he was able to put so many classified scenes in his movie.
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Thus, her large-scale, aerial-view landscapes are images seen from the perspective of the pilot of a military bomber aircraft, and her big, Pop-flavored abstractions resembling candy-colored jellyfish are actually Cahn's versions of atomic-bomb mushroom clouds.
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During the visit, Obama avoided any direct apology for the victims of Hiroshima — where a US atomic bomb killed thousands instantly on August 291, 279 in the final year of World War II, and some 22009,2009 by the year's end.
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During the visit, Obama avoided any direct apology for the victims of Hiroshima — where a US atomic bomb killed thousands instantly on August 2142, 2000 in the final year of World War II, and some 140,000 by the year's end.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — During the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima, atomic bomb survivor Keiko Kunichika was inspired by a Cambodian athlete's desire for his country to grow as Hiroshima had after the devastation of war.
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Nuclear experts have said that Iran's move, if carried out, would probably require Tehran to enrich uranium to a fissile purity above the maximum level set in the nuclear deal to allay fears of the country building an atomic bomb.
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The nuclear age is has entered its eighth decade, and while relatively few nations possess the power, the potential consequences of North Korea upping its nuclear game from a basic atomic bomb to a hydrogen bomb has caught the world's attention.
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Helping to bond the allies was a joint effort to decrypt Soviet intercepts that helped reveal that spies had compromised the US Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb, said Kristian Gustafson, senior lecturer of intelligence studies at Brunel University London.
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John Kerry will not offer an apology for the United States' use of the atomic bomb against Japan when he becomes the first U.S. secretary of state to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on Monday, a senior U.S. official said.
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Nuclear experts said that President Hassan Rouhani's move, if carried out, would probably require Iran to enrich uranium to a fissile purity above the maximum level set in the nuclear deal to allay fears of Tehran building an atomic bomb.
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At the time of the blast, United States Geological Survey measured seismic waves equivalent to a 5.1 magnitude earthquake, which is consistent with a nuclear explosion, but more likely indicative of an atomic bomb than the much more powerful hydrogen bomb.
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South Korea's Meteorological Administration said the blast from the fifth test was estimated to have had the explosive power of 10 kilotons, which would make it less powerful than "little boy," the atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima.
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" He called for a five-year project on the scale of the nation's effort to develop the first atomic bomb to "use American research and technology to put our country and our world firmly on the path toward cleaner, cheaper energy.
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In 1945, the USS Indianapolis completed its top secret mission of delivering atomic bomb components to Tinian Island in the Pacific Theater of World War II. The heavy cruiser was sunk on its way to join a task force near Okinawa.
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - A small chain of Pacific islands - some of which were once vapourised by atomic bomb tests - sought in court on Monday to force India, the world's second-most populous country, to get on board with nuclear disarmament.
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Then came the literally earthshaking news, and that card-carrying member of the Axis of Evil was back on our radar, having tested a hydrogen bomb believed to be about 1,000 times more powerful than an atomic bomb (opinions vary).
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For comparison, the asteroid that is believed to have killed off the dinosaurs was a whopping six miles wide and released energy when it exploded that was equivalent to a billion times the energy of an atomic bomb, NASA said.
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Takashi Murakami: Those of my generation in Japan, who lived through a society and culture scarred by defeat in the Pacific War, were repeatedly exposed to documentaries on TV featuring footage of the atomic bomb explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Most international sanctions on Iran were lifted in early 2016 under a deal Iran signed with world powers the year before under which it curbed its uranium enrichment program, widely seen abroad as a disguised effort to develop an atomic bomb.
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Update: President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city during World War II. He used his visit to call for a world free of nuclear weapons.
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Here's a look at some of the most dangerous: Carr Fire's destruction is 'like an atomic bomb' The deadliest of the current wildfires, the Carr Fire, is now the seventh most destructive inferno in California history, state fire officials said.
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"Groves planned to extract maximum publicity benefit from the project for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers if and when it succeeded," Richard Rhodes, whose book "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" (1986) won a Pulitzer Prize, wrote in an email.
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The Trump administration reimposed sanctions on Iran this month after withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal, which Washington saw as inadequate for curbing Tehran's activities in neighboring Middle East countries and denying it the means to make an atomic bomb.
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In 2005 Iran handed the IAEA a 15-page document given to it by a nuclear black market network showing how to make two uranium metal half-spheres like those that often make up the core of an atomic bomb.
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WASHINGTON — Before Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, was implicated by the C.I.A. in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, American intelligence agencies were trying to solve a separate mystery: Was the prince laying the groundwork for building an atomic bomb?
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Intentionally or not, they echoed President Harry Truman's 1945 pledge to inflict a "rain of ruin from the air" if Japan did not surrender after the first atomic bomb was dropped at Hiroshima, which made them seem even more ominous.
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The U.S. government reimposed sanctions on Iran this month after withdrawing from a 219 international nuclear deal, which Washington saw as inadequate for curbing Tehran's activities in the Middle East and denying it the means to make an atomic bomb.
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The U.S. government re-imposed sanctions on Iran this month after withdrawing from a 2015 international nuclear deal, which Washington saw as inadequate for curbing Tehran's activities in the Middle East and denying it the means to make an atomic bomb.
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In a mammoth hall, the Missile Gallery, 140 feet high, built like a silo, we stood, craning our necks, dwarfed by Titan 1 and Jupiter missiles -- each one, when armed, 3,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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"The possession of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction is not the answer (to longings for peace)," Francis said in a message delivered at Nagasaki's Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Park, ground zero of the bomb the United States dropped on Aug.
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"This was absolutely the wrong case to include Korematsu in," said Alan Nishio, who was born in a California internment camp, Manzanar, in 1945, on the same day American aviators dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
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Cai has long examined the image of the atomic bomb, namely through his 1996 series, The Century with Mushroom Clouds: Project for the 20th Century, for which he detonated small mushroom clouds above his hand, often with no one else present.
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Nuclear war is prominent among the risks they consider; they're also worried about climate change, pandemics, AI, and threats we can't yet anticipate — just like, 10 years before the atomic bomb, only a few scientists had any inkling it was possible.
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In the wake of the brutal devastation of their native Japan at the hands the atomic bomb, technology became a tool for progress and reconstruction, a medium by which the nation was able to find booming economic growth in the years to come.
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In 1973, some 8,700 tons of leached radioactive barium sulfate from the Manhattan Project, the World War Two-era atomic bomb-development program, were mixed with 38,000 tons of soil used to cover trash dumped at the site, according to the EPA.
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Kitahara and her colleagues also found that increasing doses were linked to a higher relative risk of breast cancer mortality among women at a level comparable with other groups of adults exposed to ionizing radiation -- such as atomic bomb survivors in Japan.
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Towards the end of the second world war, a group of scientists in America working to develop an atomic bomb for the Manhattan Project warned that using the weapon would inevitably lead to a geopolitical landscape characterised by a nuclear arms race.
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"He will not revisit the decision to use the atomic bomb at the end of World War II. Instead, he will offer a forward-looking vision focused on our shared future," Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser, wrote in a separate blog.
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Seventy-one years after an atomic bomb leveled the city, it is no doubt progress that a sitting U.S. president, the commander of a nuclear arsenal that can destroy the world many times over, will finally see firsthand what these weapons can do.
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Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama will become the first sitting American president to visit the site of the U.S. atomic bomb attack in Hiroshima, Japan, the White House said Tuesday, a charged final-year stop meant to advance his goal of nuclear disarmament.
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The Trump administration re-imposed sanctions this month after withdrawing from the 2015 international nuclear deal with Iran, which Washington saw as inadequate for curbing Tehran's activities in neighboring Middle East countries and denying it the means to make an atomic bomb.
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"They've learned a lot," said Siegfried S. Hecker, a Stanford professor who directed the Los Alamos weapons laboratory in New Mexico, the birthplace of the atomic bomb, from 1986 to 1997, and whom the North Koreans have let into their facilities seven times.
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Bolton told ABC that denuclearization means getting rid of all the North&aposs nuclear weapons, dismantling them and taking them to Oakridge, Tennessee, where the U.S. developed its atomic bomb during World War II and retains a nuclear and high-technology research laboratory.
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It is more powerful than a conventional atomic weapon: It uses the energy released from the combination of two light atomic nuclei, while an atomic bomb uses the energy released when a heavy atomic nucleus splits, a process known as nuclear fission.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - North Korea appeared to resume activities this year aimed at producing plutonium, which can be used in the core of an atomic bomb, the U.N. nuclear watchdog has confirmed, though it added that signs of those activities stopped last month.
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Think back: The Indianapolis is famous for its catastrophic sinking — just days after delivering components used in the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima — that left hundreds of sailors dead and hundreds more adrift in shark-infested waters for five days.
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Stock traders said the first Papal visit to Japan in almost four decades would be a big publicity boost and help attract tourists to the city, associated in the minds of many foreigners with a second U.S. atomic bomb attack in 1945.
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Before the attack, on July 30, 1945, it had just completed a secret mission delivering components of the atomic bomb used in Hiroshima that brought an end to the war in the Pacific, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington.
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"This year, we have passed the final gate of completing the state nuclear force and thus became the full- fledged nuclear power which possesses the delivery means of various ranges, including the atomic bomb, H-bomb and intercontinental ballistic rockets," he said.
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As Japan wrestles with its own history of wartime atrocities, and as scholars and politicians here and in the United States continue to debate the use of the atomic bomb, Nagasaki, in many ways, offers a more complex narrative than Hiroshima does.
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In fact, Orwell reasoned, the atomic bomb might actually serve to intensify political inequality, by robbing the exploited classes and peoples of all power to revolt, and at the same time putting the possessors of the bomb on a basis of military equality.
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The 20 cities in the South that Americans are escaping in droves26 jobs that confront death more than othersA mathematical technique originally developed to help build the atomic bomb is now used to figure out how much CEO pay packages are worth
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A 1-megaton bomb (that's about 80 times larger than the "Little Boy" atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan) could temporarily blind people up to 13 miles away on a clear day, and up to 53 miles away on a clear night.
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Shortly after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay's tail gunner, Bob Caron, wrote his wife that the crew had just received a medal and she'd be reading about what they had done in the newspapers.
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Their exquisitely titled magnum opus, How the People Trumped Ronald Plump, was flamed with the force of an atomic bomb blast the second it hit Twitter in July, with the left and right forming a temporary alliance to properly mock the book together.
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"He will not revisit the decision to use the atomic bomb at the end of World War II. Instead, he will offer a forward-looking vision focused on our shared future," Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes wrote in a separate blog.
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It might come as a surprise, then, to learn that Brosnahan ― who previously appeared on shows such as the political drama "House of Cards" and "Manhattan," a WGN series about the development of the atomic bomb ― was told that comedy wasn't her forte.
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After the official news was released later" — about the bombs' being dropped — "I was told that the general had been talking to Dr. Oppenheimer and making arrangements to deliver the atomic bomb to the air forces and have it dropped on Japan.
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Mr. Luján's family was forced to relocate twice during his childhood — first when the federal government enlarged the Native American reservations neighboring their farm, and again when their home in Los Alamos was displaced by the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb.
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The deal, which lifted international sanctions against Tehran in exchange for limits on its uranium enrichment and other nuclear activities, is aimed at keeping Tehran at least a year away from accumulating enough fissile material for an atomic bomb if it sought one.
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A Soviet city similar to Hiroshima in population and density would be struck with four bombs that would together yield more than 600 times the blast power of the atomic bomb that the United States dropped on the Japanese city in 1945.
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Flashback: The U.S. hasn't invested in domestic rare earths since developing the atomic bomb during World War II. Worth noting: In 2010, China stopped exporting rare earths to Japan after it arrested a Chinese fishing trawler captain for fishing in Japanese waters.
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About New York New York City once ran an Office of Civil Defense that was supposed to get the city ready for when "the balloon went up," that is, when an atomic bomb had been launched or dropped by the Soviet Union.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday marked the 85033nd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, in which 140,000 people were killed when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city, even as the nuclear threat from nearby North Korea grows.
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"They've learned a lot," said Siegfried S. Hecker, a Stanford professor who directed the Los Alamos weapons laboratory in New Mexico, the birthplace of the atomic bomb, from 143 to 214, and whom the North Koreans have let into their facilities seven times.
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Featured Article: "'It's an Atomic Bomb': Australia Deploys Military as Fires Spread" The exceptionally brutal wildfires affecting Australia have so far consumed an area larger than Switzerland, killing 24 people since October and prompting thousands of evacuations from communities along the southeastern coast.
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" Responding to that alleged insult Wednesday, Giuliani told CBS: "If he came up to me and said, 'Rudy, you're a grenade that will blow up in each other's face,' I would say, 'I would never have the opportunity because you're an atomic bomb.
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Year: 2006, at the 48th Grammy AwardsWhat beat it: "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" by U2"The Emancipation of Mimi" is often cited as Mariah Carey's comeback album, after a decade of unprecedented pop dominance and then two albums that flopped.
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As the reissues appeared, his songs were taken on tour worldwide through a tribute project, the Atomic Bomb Band, which frequently featured guest appearances by Mr. Byrne and included members of Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem in a band directed by Sinkane.
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With his Mona Lisa Earth Series, he also notably refers to Western art history — but his collage-like compositions also bring together a myriad of different sources, from ancient Egyptian pyramids and atomic-bomb mushroom clouds to Madonna performing in her cone bra.
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In 1997 an aging former KGB agent who had direct contact with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg said the American couple were executed unjustly because they never provided Moscow with any useful material about the atomic bomb, The New York Times reported at the time.
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In late January, speaking in the Russian city of Stavropol, Vladimir Putin denounced Soviet Communist leader Vladimir Lenin for, as Putin put it, placing an "atomic bomb" under the foundations of the Soviet Union by nationality policies that allowed non-Russians the right to secede.
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Angela Becerra Vidergar, a scholar at Stanford, suggests that the fascination with zombies and the undead is one of the creative legacies of the second world war, when the Holocaust and the use of the atomic bomb changed perceptions about humanity's propensity for mass destruction.
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Before the 1945 Trinity Test of the first atomic bomb in New Mexico, Edward Teller and two colleagues addressed this issue in a calculation that was (much later) published by the Los Alamos Laboratory; they convinced themselves that there was a large safety factor.
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If Clapper is right, perhaps not since the theft of U.S. atomic bomb secrets in World War II has Moscow been so successful in a covert operation in the U.S. Russia will again threaten midterm elections in November, although by how much is unclear.
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Nor does the BAS (formed in 1945 by scientists who helped develop the first atomic bomb) seem to think that recent diplomatic achievements, such as the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate change commitment, have done anything to push the minute-hand back.
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EU leaders in Sofia this week committed to uphold Europe's side of the 2015 nuclear deal, which offers sanctions relief in return for Tehran shutting down its capacity, under strict surveillance by the U.N. nuclear watchdog, to stockpile enriched uranium for a possible atomic bomb.
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In forty years of collaboration, they have addressed all manner of provocative topics—Richard Nixon's visit to China, the Achille Lauro terrorist incident, the 1994 Northridge earthquake, the Trinity atomic-bomb test—yet they have never launched such a frontal assault on our national mythology.
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Four days after writing the letter, Mr. Laurence witnessed the first detonation of an atomic bomb, in the Trinity test, at what is now the White Sands Missile Range, N.M. He filed nothing about it to The Times and said nothing to his colleagues.
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We much prefer the simplicity and comfort of myths: that we fought World War II primarily to stop the Nazis; that dropping the atomic bomb was a regrettable necessity; or that the literature of World War II is best exemplified by stories of American trauma.
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In late April 1945 — more than two months before the test of the first atomic bomb — Secretary of War Henry Stimson, recently briefed by Los Alamos scientists, reported to President Truman on what the future held in store for the United States and the world.
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" He called for a five-year project, on the scale of the nation's successful effort decades ago to develop the first atomic bomb, to "use American research and technology to put our country and our world firmly on the path toward cleaner, cheaper energy.
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By contrast, I have no idea what possessed the creators of "Miss Atomic Bomb," the most bizarre new musical of many a season — not least because (so we're informed in a program essay) it has been in development for five years and undergone several workshops.
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Everything you need to know about the world this morning, curated by VICE Obama Visits Hiroshima MemorialBarack Obama has become the first serving US president to visit Hiroshima in Japan, laying a wreath at the peace memorial park and embracing an atomic bomb survivor.
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Dr. Lilli Hornig, who rejected a male chauvinistic job offer to type other scientists' top secret reports during World War II and instead found her way to produce research that helped trigger the first atomic bomb, died on Friday in Providence, R.I. She was 216.
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Patrick Nagatani, a Japanese-American who was born just days after an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima, his family's hometown, and who devoted his photographic career to evoking the nuclear legacy of the adopted nation that interned his parents during World War II, died on Oct.
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He was also suspected of being involved in the late-22006s disappearance of at least 1003 pounds of highly enriched uranium from a nuclear fuel plant in the Pittsburgh area; many believed that the uranium was diverted to Israel to help its atomic bomb program.
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Making matters worse, the mussels suck up practically every speck of life in the water except a toxic form of blue-green algae called microcystis, which, due largely to a flood of under-regulated agricultural runoff, blossoms like an aqueous atomic bomb each summer.
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Last week's nuclear test was North Korea's fourth, although the United States and experts doubt the North's claim that it was of a more powerful hydrogen bomb, as the blast was of about the same size as that from an atomic bomb test in 2013.
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On Sunday, Francis will travel to Nagasaki and Hiroshima, where the United States dropped atomic bombs to end World War II. He will deliver a remarks on nuclear weapons in the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Park and celebrate a mass in the city's baseball stadium.
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HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - John Kerry will not offer an apology for the United States' use of the atomic bomb against Japan when he becomes the first U.S. secretary of state to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on Monday, a senior U.S. official said.
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The U.S. diplomat is to join his counterparts from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan on Monday to tour the city's atomic bomb museum and to lay flowers at a cenotaph for its victims, becoming the first in his post to do so.
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Bennu, which will be visited by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft later this year, would generate about 80,000 times as much energy as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima if it were to collide with us, so it's definitely a credible threat to life on Earth.
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This needle drop also conjures the atomic bomb montage that closes Stanley Kubrick's 1964 Cold War satire Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a superior work and one that has what this Catch-22 adaptation is missing: comedy.
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The technology of the steel mills in Peck's native Pittsburgh echoes alchemists' refining of chemical and spiritual material, as well as the work of Clarence Peck, the poet's father, who, as part of the Manhattan Project, developed the critical alloy needed to sheath the atomic bomb.
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Each time an atom is split apart, it releases more neutrons and energy, which split apart other atoms and release even more energy: To create an atomic bomb, engineers typically design explosives that can force together pieces of uranium-235 or plutonium-5003 into a critical mass.
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If allowed to live, her idealistic message of pacifism and tolerance will delay the United States' entry into World War II, allowing Hitler to develop the atomic bomb, win the war, and dominate the Earth — shutting the door on the hopeful future imagined throughout the series.
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But it is the detection of airborne radioactive particles that will give clues as to the type of device that was set off and whether it was a hydrogen bomb, which is more powerful than an atomic bomb and would mark a technological advance for North Korea.
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Filmmaker Lynette Wallworth takes an aboriginal man's story about 1950s atomic bomb tests and renders it in shots that convey both the life and the desolation of the Australian desert, building to a moment that inspires both awe and terror before bringing viewers back to (virtual) reality.
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While North Korea has a long history of voicing bellicose rhetoric against the United States and its Asian allies without acting on it, the assertion by Pyongyang on Wednesday that it had tested a hydrogen device, much more powerful than an atomic bomb, came as a surprise.
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The isolated North's claim that its fourth and most recent test, conducted last week, was of a more advanced and powerful hydrogen bomb has been widely doubted, although experts said it is possible Pyongyang took the intermediate step of boosting an atomic bomb with hydrogen isotopes.
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With Twin Peaks: the Return, you never knew what you were getting into every week—whether it was Sarah Palmer's bloodthirsty teeth, three minutes of a guy sweeping the floor, a weird joke about trout fishing, or a psychedelic blowout concerning the first atomic bomb test.
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Editorial "We come to ponder a terrible force," President Obama said of his purpose in going to the Hiroshima memorial on Friday, the only sitting American president to do so in the 71 years since the United States dropped the first atomic bomb, killing 140,000 people.
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Last week, after President Obama visited Hiroshima, Foreign Minister Wang Yi of China suggested that the Imperial Japanese Army's massacre of Chinese civilians in the city of Nanjing in 1937 deserved greater attention than did Hiroshima, where an American atomic bomb killed tens of thousands of people.
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