Today in military history: US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. U.S. President Harry Truman decided to use the atom bomb to force…
Today in military history: Atom bomb successfully tested
On July 16, 1945, the atom bomb was successfully tested by the United States. During World War II, the Manhattan Project was created to continue the efforts to develop a…
The Nazis had a nuclear reactor in World War II
The Germans were the first to propose nuclear science, and some of their top minds advanced the field in the 1800s and early 1900s. That’s why it’s probably a little surprising that America had the first functioning nuclear reactor. And the first …
These are the clean cut differences between an atomic and hydrogen bomb
Fat Man: Hiroshima, Little Boy: Nagasaki. To date, these two bombings on the 6th and 9th of August 1945, during WWII, remain the only instance of the use of nuclear…
Defense Department issues a new medal for Atomic-Era veterans
In the days following World War II, the United States military began to develop an entirely different way of waging war and conducting itself on the world stage. It was…
That time we almost launched the atomic bomb on North Korea
On November 30, 1950, the United States was deeply entrenched in the Korean War after suffering a surprise attack on its troops. On this day, President Truman issued the thinly veiled…
What it’s like to survive an atomic bomb
On September 2nd in 1945, just 75 years ago, World War II was officially over. Many celebrated August 15th as the end of the war when Japanese Emperor Hirohito announced Imperial Japan’s surrender, but it took two more weeks until the 2nd before th…
Why the US needed the United Kingdom’s permission to drop the atomic bomb
Why the United States might need the British government’s approval to do anything after the year 1776 might seem baffling to some but when it came to science and technology,…
Today in military history: US drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki
On Aug. 9, 1945, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan at the city of Nagasaki. Three days earlier, the U.S. struck the Japanese city of Hiroshima…
Here’s the difference between a hydrogen bomb and an atomic bomb
North Korea claims it tested a hydrogen bomb on January 6, 2016, but it probably isn’t true. For starters, the seismic disturbance caused by the explosion was a magnitude 5.1, according to the
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