The previous chapters present the results of the work carried out to address the committee’s charge, including a literature review, calculations, and analysis of information presented by many experts.

On August 6, 1945, the atomic mission against Hiroshima began. The primary strike aircraft was the B-29 Enola Gay, piloted by ...

Growing up in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the 1950s and 60s, Mary Dickson was among the millions of American schoolchildren taught to “duck and cover” in the event of a nuclear war. “I just remember ...

Nuclear bomb effects computer in pocket. Also issued online. NASM copy: Circular computer lacking. MSRL copy "Changes as of Feb. 1964" inserted. 1. General principles of nuclear explosions -- 2.

At the outset of the Cold War and the dawn of the era of nuclear competition, the United States and the Soviet Union worked quickly to develop large stockpiles of weapons and to demonstrate the power ...

This specialized slide rule was included in the back of a book "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons," to illustrate to specialists and interested lay members of the public what kind of destruction could be ...

With the world struggling to get oil supplies moving from the Middle East, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich raised eyebrows with a social media post highlighting a radical idea: Use nuclear bombs to ...

Alex Partezana was a 22-year-old Marine in April 1953 when he received an unusual order: to observe nuclear weapons testing in the desert outside Las Vegas, Nevada. He still remembers the first blast ...