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A Vesuvius Victim’s Brain Turned into Glass, and Scientists Think They Know How
The 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius obliterated the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum with a blast that had the thermal energy of 100,000 World War II-era atomic bombs. About 1950 years ...
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A Chunk of Trinitite Reminds Us of the Sheer, Devastating Power of the Atomic Bomb
“The glass takes strange shapes—lopsided marbles ... who had directed the Los Alamos Laboratory where the first atomic bombs were designed and built, was something of a Renaissance man ...
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Capturing a Photograph of an Atomic Bomb Blast
Its aim was to capture, on film, the actual moment of an atomic bomb detonation A Final Takeoff The Incredible Flying Car of the 1950s The Corning Museum of Glass Follow Us Explore ...
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Surviving Hiroshima’s Atomic Bomb
Window glass shattered by the blast flew through ... explosion received lethal doses for more than a minute after the atomic bomb detonated. Others were contaminated by the high levels of ...
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The extraordinary men who link Auschwitz and the atomic bomb
that of the Japanese monk and atomic-bomb survivor Tomei Ozaki (1928-2021), and that of the Polish priest and Auschwitz victim Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941). “History is like broken glass ...