These mushroom clouds directly addressed new sources of anxiety: the arms race (set off after the Soviets’ 1949 atomic test), the effects of radiation, and the hydrogen bomb and its even bigger ...

This photo has been misidentified as a mushroom cloud for decades. The Pulitzer Prize winning book from 1986, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, described it as “the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima ...

Photos of Hiroshima mushroom cloud over-simplify the bomb, capturing its power but not its tragedy After seeing “Oppenheimer,” I have become more certain than ever that we must begin looking ...

In a test called "Ivy Mike," the world's first hydrogen bomb explodes on Enewetak Atoll, November 1, 1952. Nuclearweaponarchive.org He wasn’t supposed to do it, but on May 15, 1948, Lieutenant ...

Photo Found Of Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Mushroom Cloud Splitting In Two. ... but this is the first time that the actual print has been discovered," said a curator at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

The picture is a rare glimpse of the bomb's immediate aftermath, showing the distinct two-tiered cloud as it was seen from Kaitaichi, part of present-day Kaita, six miles east of Hiroshima's center.