A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part VI - Why the weapons were used... revisionist...

A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part VI - Why the weapons were used... revisionist...: "Better an end with terror than a terror without end." (German proverb)             In June of 1945, w ith the loss of the Jap...

A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part V - Burying the dead took too long... Hiroshi...

A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part V - Burying the dead took too long... Hiroshi...:             The attempt to get a person’s mind around the totality of the destruction wrought by man’s first infantile steps into the Atomi...

A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part IV - Tibbets and the Enola Gay ride into hist...

A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part IV - Tibbets and the Enola Gay ride into hist...: "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper." The Hollow Men, T. S. Eliot (Above: The race to build an...

A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part III - A place called Trinity... in the Valley...

A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part III - A place called Trinity... in the Valley...: “Thunder is good. Thunder is impressive. But it is lightning that does the work.”     Mark Twain (Above: The United States tested on...

A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part II - Never bring a knife to a gunfight...

A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part II - Never bring a knife to a gunfight...:             Before we continue to move along with the history of the development and use of these weapons, it is appropriate to understand...

A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part I - In the beginning... there was always war....

A Brief History of Early Nuclear Weapons Development and Use: Part I - In the beginning... there was always war....:      “Over the last 5,500 years… about 15,000 wars have taken place on our planet… more than 3.5 billion people have been killed in these ...

Development and Usa of Nuclear Weapons part 1 of 6

Part 1 Deals with selection of key personnel and the secret cities created to build the atomic bomb. Photo and video resources augment the brief.