Reckless exposure to atomic weapons during the nuclear arms race left veterans’ lives blighted with debilitating health ...
Project A119 was a Cold War-era response to Sputnik, with the goal of using a nuclear explosion in space to scare the Soviets ...
Veterans who took part in Britain’s nuclear testing programme ... and two hydrogen - and we felt the blast. We got up, and then we could see the mushroom cloud, and we got back on our lorries ...
They photographed the sun as it rose over the mountains, casting a golden light upon America’s largest missile range. I parked in a makeshift dirt lot and made my way to the entrance, where two men ...
The steel skeletons of dozens of steam locomotives betray a time when the spectre of the mushroom cloud loomed dangerously near. During the Soviet era it served as a nuclear war base - ready ...
After he finished his weekly musical gig with his pal Don Armbruster at Mary & Clyde’s Revisited Deli, Bail & Tackle — a Main ...
A nuclear shockwave tears through ... are killed by the intense heat, blast and radiation. The crew of the Enola Gay watch the rising mushroom cloud, the city below now transformed into fiery ...
Nuclear-armed nations are engaged in two major ... Sand from the desert below was swept up into the mushroom cloud. In midair ...
At one point, Higgins and the crew were only 35 miles from a 1-megaton nuclear blast – so close the mushroom cloud was visible through the periscope. Because the Soviets were spying on the Americans, ...
Veteran Brian Unthank, lost all his teeth and has had 93 skin cancers removed - while his wife suffered 13 miscarriages, his ...
Viewers will be moved to tears as they hear the harrowing stories from nuclear testing veterans who ... 19 when he was ordered to fly through the mushroom clouds of four atomic bombs.
Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft have placed big bets on nuclear power to secure electricity for their data centers as AI and cloud computing have sent power use surging. But as Amazon and Meta ...