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The risk of nuclear war waned after the Cold War. It’s back with a vengeance

The bomb hasn't been used since 1945, apart from test blasts, and after the Cold War ended in 1991, the risk of nuclear war ...

How the ‘Little Boy’ Hiroshima nuclear bomb transformed modern warfare forever

The Hiroshima bomb is the most devastating to have been used in real combat. But today’s nuclear weapons are far, far more ...
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80 years later, victims of ‘first atom bomb’ will soon be eligible ...

At the military’s Nevada Test Site, 65 miles north of Las Vegas, dozens of nuclear tests were conducted underground each year between 1963 and 1992, according to the Department of Defense.
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New Mexico reckons with its role in Japan's atomic devastation on 80th anniversary of Hiroshima

The Little Boy atomic bomb — partially developed in Los Alamos as part of the Manhattan Project — fell on the Japanese city ...

80 years later, victims of ‘first atom bomb’ will soon be eligible for reparations

More Americans are now eligible for compensation for health problems linked to radiation exposure from the atomic weapons program.
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80 years later, victims of ‘first atom bomb’ will soon be ... - AOL

At the military’s Nevada Test Site, 65 miles north of Las Vegas, dozens of nuclear tests were conducted underground each year between 1963 and 1992, according to the Department of Defense.
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How Nazi secrets triggered the ultimate moral dilemma – and led to Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb

That weapon – and the bombs dropped so soon after on Hiroshima and Nagasaki – are often credited to the Manhattan Project, ...