Fackler, commanding officer of the U.S. Air Force 514th Reconnaissance Squadron Weather, flew his airplane into the seething mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb detonation. As part of Zebra ...

“We have 7.5 million images in the LVCVA Archive,” said archivist Kelli Luchs, “and the ‘Miss Atomic Bomb’ photo is one of the most requested images that we have.” The mushroom cloud ...

Current U.S. Government advice is to 'shelter in place' but you're probably better off making a run for it A mathematical model of nuclear fallout suggests that sheltering in place is not always ...

Soon afterward, she’d see the mushroom cloud ... “We watched a rocket go off. It was a bomb. We saw the cloud.” The notebook sat gathering dust until 2006, when Sharp Howerton stumbled ...

The first atomic bomb ever exploded was a test device ... before rising rapidly to form the world’s first nuclear mushroom cloud. No one commented on the glass at the time—its creation ...

When the atomic bomb was dropped on the city on August 9th, 1945, they were far enough away to survive the blast, but close enough to see the mushroom cloud. Their stories are rarely told ...

She was 14 when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped. Her home was about 2 kilometers away from the hypocenter. Mushroom cloud above Hiroshima City Fukui said her house collapsed soon after ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb ... stand on one's feet. A cloud of dust rose to a height of eight kilometers (five miles). The top of the atomic mushroom reached a height ...

After the April 22, 1952, televised broadcast of the bomb, atomic culture swept the nation, and Las Vegas became the epicenter of the craze. The mushroom cloud associated with the bomb became an ...

A trove of over 1,500 photographs taken in the months following the atomic ... after the bomb exploded, Yamada became the first person on the ground to photograph the mushroom cloud that rose ...