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How North Korea got the nuclear bomb

North Korea’s interest in nuclear weapons was decades in the making—but its first earnest attempt during the 1990s was ...
At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the course of World War II and the history of Japan changed when the US military dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Now, on the 81 st anniversary of the bombing, an ...
On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated a nuclear weapon so powerful that its shockwave traveled around the Earth multiple times. Known as Tsar Bomba, the 50-megaton explosion was ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scene of destruction after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.Universal History Archive/Universal Images ...