Dressed in a lightweight, protective zipper-suit designed to keep dirt, insects and contaminants off his body, Dr. Michael Ketterer, a chemist, slowly lowered himself into an empty, abandoned water ...
On Aug. 9, 1945, 6-year-old Chiyoko Motomura was playing on a veranda at her family’s Nagasaki, Japan, home. Her mother, aunt and grandfather were weeding the rice fields while her grandmother was ...
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The first atomic bomb test in New Mexico on July 16, 1945 opened the door to the dangerous nuclear arms ...
On July 16, 1945, an enormous column of smoke rose up to 30,000 feet (9,144 meters) high above a remote part of the Jornada Del Muerto Desert, New Mexico, preceded by a tremendous flash that lit up ...
Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. His latest book, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making & Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb ...