you can now watch dozens of newly declassified films of U.S. nuclear bomb tests on YouTube. SEE ALSO: Doomsday-proof vault in the Arctic receives a major deposit of seeds The videos show over 200 ...

The Tsar Bomba's explosion was unparalleled in power. With a 50 megaton capacity, this nuclear test was estimated to be 3,800 times the strength of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. And although short video ...

To test the impact of an atomic blast on populated areas, technicians built entire fake towns, with houses, shops, and even mannequin families. These settlements went by an ominous name ...

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. AP/Wide World Photos In 1932, James Chadwick discovered the neutron, a small atomic particle with mass but no charge.

You’ll get a realistic sense of what people felt when watching tests at the Nevada Test Site. When you visit the Ground Zero ...

2. At 0530, 16 July 1945, in a remote section of the Alamogordo Air Base, New Mexico, the first full-scale test was made of the implosion type atomic fission bomb. For the first time in history ...

The first atomic bomb ever exploded was a test device, insouciantly nicknamed the Gadget. In mid-July 1945, American scientists had trucked the five-ton mechanism from their secret laboratory at ...

Gadget, the world's first atomic bomb, was detonated on the morning of July 6, 1945, changing the course of history. Produced by Noah Friedman. Original reporting by Amanda Macias. Follow BI Video ...

is a glass formed during the first atomic bomb test (July 16, 1945). Most of the glass is green in color, but some is red in color. Trinitite occurs both as a layer of glass surrounding ground zero ...