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"If that atom bomb hits, fall flat and double up." That was the core of advice in a government booklet published 75 years ago – "Survival Under Atomic Attack." The publication, put out by the Atomic ...

It's been eight decades since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The attack on Hiroshima was first. On August 6, 1945 -- 80 years ago today -- the crew of the U.S. B-29 ...

Eighty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Japan to force the unconditional surrender that ended World War II. The fearsome weapons were created by ...

Should the U.S. and Russia resume nuclear testing? The answer to that question must be a resounding “No.” Yet President ...

In the freezing darkness of February 1950, a US B-36 bomber on a training mission began to fail over Canada. With three engines dead and ice dragging the massive aircraft down, Captain Harold Barry ...

I was 13 years old on Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. We lived less than two miles from ground zero, but by some miracle, I survived. The glass door ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, those two ...