Its force was estimated to have been equivalent to as much as 15 megatons of TNT, making it 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped ... mass of black smoke and a loud knocking ...

The wind was really bad, and I was kind of concerned about that, there was lots of dark smoke," Boyle said. "It was, like it really did look like an atom bomb, the smoke was way up in the sky ...

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo ... a new element at all but might have actually split the uranium atom in two -- at that point a barely imaginable event. Before they could ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff, Robert Luna, compared the destruction caused by the wildfire to the aftermath of an atomic bomb ... all over the place with smoke billowing out at some places.

It was 12 September 1933. A little under 12 years later, the US dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima, killing an estimated 135,000 people. The path from Szilard’s idea to its deadly realisation is ...

By the time the siren sounded, the first atom bomb had already dropped. In a blinding flash, and with temperatures as hot as the sun, the bomb detonated. It destroyed a five-mile radius ...

“And the problem with a hydrogen car, if something goes wrong, it’s like the atom bomb went off,” he said. “You’re not recognizable. They'll say, ‘We thought it was Marjorie Taylor ...

But was this the end of something, or was it the beginning? We still cannot be sure. Dropping the atom bomb changed the world for ever and nobody thought about the consequences harder than its ...

HIROSHIMA--Teruko Yahata was eight when she saw a blueish-white light envelop the sky over her home city of Hiroshima one summer morning, moments before the first atomic bomb explosion knocked her ...