was 1,600 miles from Nagasaki. The Fat Man, a plutonium-centered implosion bomb, was over 10,000 pounds. But the nuclear core was only 13 pounds and about the size of an orange. Soldiers working ...

During the Second World War, America dropped atomic bombs on two cities of Japan - Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But do you know, ...

The plane circled back, and at 11:02 a.m. on August 9, 1945, the United States dropped the “Fat Man” bomb on Nagasaki. The bomb caused an explosion ... as small head size or mental disability ...

The U.S. dropped its second atomic bomb on Nagasaki at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 1945, from a B-29 Bomber known as Bockscar. The destruction from the explosion spanned nearly three miles and destroyed ...

Three days later, their faces are marked with burns by the heat of the explosion. Nagasaki was attacked three days after an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, in which 140,000 people were ...

how a nuclear explosion can differ from a nuclear reactor explosion. The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were detonated far above ground level. This maximized the explosions’ yields ...

The heat from the bomb was so intense that some people simply vanished in the explosion ... by cloud so the bomb was dropped on nearby Nagasaki, an important port. About 40,000 people were ...

Nearly 80 years have passed since Nagasaki was incinerated by an atomic ... mottled from the unimaginable heat and radiation of the explosion -- a terrifying reminder of the brutal power of ...