Fat Man was the codename given to the plutonium core nuclear weapon that was developed as part of the Manhattan Project at ...

a nuclear historian at Stevens Institute of Technology. If a weapon similar in size to the "Fat Man" - the bomb dropped on Nagasaki by the United States on August 9, 1945 - were to be detonated in New ...

Some 6.7 billion people would die of starvation in the event of a nuclear war and its aftermath, a study by Nature Food has ...

Its discovery was shared over on Reddit, as one user posted: "TIL [Today I Learned] The only known naturally occuring nuclear ...

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A Japanese organization made up of survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs is getting well-deserved attention with its selection to receive the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. The group, called ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday lowered the threshold for a nuclear strike in response to a ...

Last month, the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors known for ...

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U.S. Ambassador Rahm Emanuel instead attended a ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Tokyo honoring the Nagasaki atomic bombing victims, joined by his Israeli and British counterparts, Gilad Cohen and ...