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  1. Nuclear explosion - Wikipedia

    A nuclear explosion is an explosion that occurs as a result of the rapid release of energy from a high-speed nuclear reaction.

  2. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Date, …

    Dec 1, 2025 · By the summer of 1945, the production plants had delivered a sufficient amount of fissionable material to produce a nuclear explosion, and bomb development had advanced to …

  3. Atomic Archive

    Learn how nuclear weapons work and the science behind them. The effects of a nuclear weapons are also explained, along with two example scenarios of a nuclear explosion over a city.

  4. What is a Nuclear Weapon? The Science, History, and Global …

    Apr 9, 2025 · Just a few weeks after the Trinity test, the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Japan—one on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and another on Nagasaki on August 9. These …

  5. NukeSim - Nuclear Explosion Simulator & Nuclear Education Hub

    Jan 15, 2024 · Interactive nuclear explosion simulator with scientific accuracy. Comprehensive nuclear education covering nuclear weapons, nuclear technology, nuclear policy, and nuclear …

  6. Atomic Bomb: Nuclear Bomb, Hiroshima & Nagasaki - HISTORY

    On July 16, 1945, in a remote desert location near Alamogordo, New Mexico, the first atomic bomb was successfully detonated—the Trinity Test. It created an enormous mushroom cloud …

  7. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Bombshell | KPBS Public Media

    2 days ago · Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves (r), Chief of Manhattan Engineering District in which first Atomic Bomb was developed, and Dr. J. R. Oppenheimer, Dir. of Los Alamos Atomic Bomb …

  8. The History and Physics of the Atomic Bomb - WIRED

    Aug 6, 2025 · First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective memory—the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and …

  9. Nuclear weapon - Wikipedia

    A nuclear weapon[a] is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either nuclear fission (fission or atomic bomb) or a combination of fission and …

  10. Atomic bomb | History, Properties, Proliferation, & Facts | Britannica

    Nov 8, 2025 · This series of rapidly multiplying fissions culminates in a chain reaction in which nearly all the fissionable material is consumed, in the process generating the explosion of what …