Key Points and Summary - The U.S. military has suffered dozens of “Broken Arrow” nuclear weapons accidents—events involving lost weapons, accidental releases, or other serious mishaps. -Most were ...
Manhattan Project scientists working on the Thin Man plutonium gun assembly. Two atomic bombs nicknamed Little Boy and Fat Man were detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, effectively ...
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. “I’m not sure if it was the effect of the atomic bomb, but I have always had a weak body, and when I was born, the ...