This is the Hanford Site, the most contaminated nuclear location in America, and the site responsible for the plutonium in ...
A NAGASAKI World War Two bombing survivor – who devoted his life to campaigning against nuclear weapons – has died aged 93.
This image from 1945 shows Manhattan Project physicist Harold Agnew smiling and holding the plutonium core of ... the heart of the "Fat Man" atomic bomb was detonated on August 9, 1945, over ...
They designed two bombs, one using uranium (called "Little Boy") and one using plutonium ("Fat Man"). By early 1945, the plants at Oak Ridge and Hanford had produced enough raw material for testing.
Weighing 14 pounds and responsible for approximately 80,000 deaths, the heart of the "Fat Man" atomic bomb was detonated on August 9, 1945, over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Nicknamed after ...
Fat Man, and Little Boy. Testing world's first atomic bomb On July 16, scientists from the Manhattan Project conducted the first test of an implosive-type plutonium bomb, called Trinity.
He had been about 1.8 kilometres (1.1 miles) from the epicentre of the "Fat Man" plutonium bomb that detonated over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, killing more than 70,000 people. Six days later ...
As part of the Manhattan Project, Hanford produced the plutonium to build Fat Man, the atomic weapon that was detonated above Nagasaki at the end of World War II, and for the United States' nuclear ...
The report outlines a plan to develop a nuclear deterrent similar to the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki ... believes Ukraine could produce basic plutonium-based nuclear weapons using technology ...
Plutonium is one of the most dangerous substances in existence. It was the main ingredient of the infamous Fat Man atomic bomb which killed 70,000 in Nagasaki during World War Two. Radioactive ...