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The V1 Flying Bomb: Hitler's vengeance weapon

The V1 Flying Bomb, also known as a 'buzz bomb' or 'doodlebug', was one of the most fear-inducing terror weapons of the Second World War.

Manhattan Project: The Trinity Test, July 16, 1945 - OSTI.GOV

Seconds after the explosion came a huge blast wave and heat searing out across the desert. No one could see the radiation generated by the explosion, but they ...

Tsar Bomba - Nuclear Museum - Atomic Heritage Foundation

Tsar Bomba (in Russian, Царь-бомба) is the Western nickname for the Soviet RDS-220 (РДС-220) hydrogen bomb (code name Vanya). Detonated by the Soviet Union on ...

75 Years Ago: The Flight of the Enola Gay

On August 6, 1945, the crew of a modified Boeing B-29 Superfortress named Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare, ...

World War II Bombs Sent Shockwaves Into Space - Popular Mechanics

This was likely caused by heating of the upper atmosphere by bombings. Patrick Major of the University of Reading and a co-author on the study ...

Soviet Tests | American Experience | Official Site - PBS

The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." A train belching black smoke, shipped the bomb components 2,000 miles from Arzamas, ...

Difference in how Warthunder treats shockwaves from a bomb of an ...

Footage of an Iranian F-4 bombing Iraqi targets during Iran-Iraq war, 1980. All Air.

Possible Fatalities from Superfires Following Nuclear Attacks in or ...

Unlike a shock wave of comparable peak overpressure from a high explosive bomb, which persists for about 0.1 second as it passes, this shock wave persists for ...

Reality Check: The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

On July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert, the United States detonated the world's first nuclear weapons test explosion. Three weeks later, U.S. bombers ...

Numerical study on the case effect of a bomb air explosion

The numerical simulation results showed that the bomb case significantly influenced the shock wave generated by the bomb.

What happens if nuclear weapons are used? - ICAN

An enormous shockwave reaches speeds of many hundreds of kilometres an hour. The blast kills people close to ground zero, and causes lung injuries, ear damage ...

End Nuclear Tests Day - History - the United Nations

All told, of the over 2,000 nuclear explosions detonated worldwide between 1945 and 1996, 25 % or over 500 bombs were exploded in the atmosphere: over 200 by ...

How The Soviet Union Developed The World's Most Powerful Bomb

... World War II ... The shock wave generated after the blast traveled three times around the Earth.

Impact of WWII bombing raids felt at edge of space

Bombing raids by Allied forces during the Second World War not only caused devastation on the ground but also sent shockwaves through ...

Why did the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima leave shadows of ...

The nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of WWII left shadows of people on the ground and buildings. Here's why.

The lost nuclear bombs that no one can find - BBC

Take the lost Tybee island bomb, which is still lying in silt somewhere in Wassaw Sound. On February 5, 1958, this 7,600-pound (3,400-kg) Mark ...

Atomic Bombing Of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay, piloted by Col. Paul W. Tibbets, dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima and gave the world a peep into hell.

Halifax Explosion | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Halifax was devastated on 6 December 1917 when two ships collided in the city's harbour, one of them a munitions ship loaded with explosives bound for the ...

Soviet-Japan and the termination of the Second World War

I total lu agree with Bart Solari, the two bombs were used to finish the war quickly and stop the Soviets who had already invaded Sakhalin and ...

The untold story of the world's biggest nuclear bomb

Slung below the plane's belly was a nuclear bomb the size of a small school bus—the largest and most powerful bomb ever created. At 11:32 a.m., ...