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On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time, humanity entered the nuclear age with a blinding flash of light in the New ...
Created by Stockpile Designs of Brooklyn, NY, the Megaton floor lamp utilizes the hand-polished casing of a Korean War-era 100-lb kinetic bomb seated 42 inches above the ground on a narrow stand ...
A U.S. nuclear bomb is pictured exploding in an April 1954 test detonation. The Biden administration announced last week that it was updating the country's nuclear weapons arsenal with a new bomb ...
The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was about a 15-kiloton bomb. The DoD fact sheet released in October 2023 said the "B61-13 will have a yield similar to the B61-7, which is higher than that of ...
In particular, students from SPI/MAE 353: Science and Global Security: From Nuclear Weapons to Cyberwarfare and Artificial Intelligence, took a class trip to see “the bomb.” Hajra Hamid ’25, a SPIA ...
The National Nuclear Security Administration announced on May 19, 2025, that production of the first B61-13 variant nuclear bomb has been completed at the Pantex plant in Amarillo, Texas. The ...
If the U.S. does drop a powerful "bunker buster" bomb on a suspected underground nuclear weapons site in Iran, experts in radiation hazards say there is little risk of widespread contamination.