2005-08-06T15:53:37-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/996/20050806155344002_hd.jpgA brief oral history was given about the development of atomic weapons. A ...

2009-05-03T14:47:35-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/88b/20090503144759003.jpgClip: The Atomic Bomb: Decision and Implementation Clip: The Atomic Bomb: Decision ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On Aug. 9, 1945, a second bombing was dropped on Nagasaki. The atomic bombs instantly took thousands of ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" is about the Manhattan Project, and features an atomic bomb test. To film the test, he used an old Hollywood trick and made a bomb in miniature instead of using CGI.

Editor’s Note: This article contains potentially triggering material, including discussions of war, health effects of atomic bombs, child death and more. In August 1945, the United States dropped ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. On ...