In the 1950s, there were so many nuclear bomb explosions above ground that it transformed the chemical make-up of the atmosphere – altering the carbon composition of life on Earth ever since ...

The Japanese government will designate the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, western Japan, as a Special Historic Site that has ...

At the heart of an atomic bomb of any kind is a fission reaction. In this process, ... The structure, which stayed standing after the 1945 bombing, is now a World Heritage Site.

Atomic Bomb Dome (Genbaku Dome) The ... Once the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, this skeletal structure ...

The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, effectively ended WWII, but took thousands of civilian lives. On August 6, 1945, the bomb was dropped on the city.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — A building at Y-12 that helped create the first atomic bombs is being demolished.. Building 9201-2, also known as Alpha-2, is a 2.5-acre structure was built in 1944 to ...