Soviet-era plutonium that was never accounted for after the Cold War could fuel roughly 25 nuclear weapons as powerful as the "Fat Man" atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in World War II, former Air Force Secretary Thomas Reed said Monday (see GSN, Dec. 9, 2008).

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The single, blinding release of pure energy over Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, marked a startling and permanent break with our prior understandings of the visible world. Yet for more than sixty years the technology behind the explosion has remained a state secret.

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By dawn on Saturday March 11 2000, even by his own extraordinary standards, the Fat Man had had a seriously bad night at the exclusive private gambling club Aspinalls. He had signed for four successive stacks of £500,000 worth of gambling chips, and lost the lot at blackjack.

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Japanese Defense Chief: Atomic Bombing 'Couldn't Be Helped' Saturday, June 30, 2007 TOKYO — Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma said the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan by the United States during World War II was an inevitable way to end the war, a news report said Saturday.

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Life and Death - Nagasaki's 61st Anniversary

61 years ago, on this day, Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki, sparking the beginning of the end for an estimated 74,000 people. Combined with Little Boy which was dropped three days earlier, the death toll hit around 214,000 - a number which is as startling as it is gruesome.

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If its WWIII, should we use "the bomb"

We all know, or should know about "the bomb", or more specifically, the A-Bomb, the Atomic Bomb, the Hydrogen Bomb, etc. Should we use it to end this world war before it starts, and violate the Geneva Convention rules and the Moscow treaty, or just use new tech?

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