During the early 1950s America went bonkers over the budding atomic age. The growth of Las Vegas, for example, was partially due to a new bomb-testing site situated 65 miles northwest of the gambling ...
Flashback: Chain reaction: How Chicago helped give birth to the atomic bomb and bring an end to WWII
Seventy-five years ago, Col. Paul Tibbets flew the plane carrying the first weapon of mass destruction, an atomic bomb that would shortly bring World War II to a close. After dropping it over Japan, ...
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