The term ‘nuclear winter’ evokes images of a post-apocalyptic world, where the skies are shrouded in perpetual darkness due to the aftermath of a nuclear war. It’s a chilling scenario,…
The term “Hibakusha” is a Japanese word that translates to “explosion-affected people”. It refers to the survivors of the two atomic bombings that occurred in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, during…
Three days after the Hiroshima bombing, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb, this time on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. This bomb was even more powerful than the…
During World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb onthe Japanese city of Hiroshima, marking the first-ever use of nuclear weapons in warfare. The bomb instantly annihilated everything…
The creation of the atomic bomb ushered the world in the Atomic Age. Stemming from breakthroughs in physics, the concept took tangible form under the Manhattan Project during World War…
Did you know that Oppenheimer worked with Einstein on the Manhattan Project and was a colleague of Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University in the US?…