Containing radiation equivalent to 14,000 times the amount released in the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima 68 years ago, more than 1,300 used fuel rod assemblies packed tightly together need to be ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning.

Advertisement Article continues below this ad The atomic ... the bombs, some of which are still felt today: children left parentless, others (even the unborn) left permanently crippled by radiation.

“The atomic bomb now even robbed me of the marrow of her bones,” Nakazawa (1939-2012) thought, feeling a flash of red-hot anger that the exposure to radiation made her bones brittle.

The atomic bombings ... with atomic bomb references, which appear in any number of forms, from the symbolic to the literal. The devastating aftereffects – orphaned kids, radiation sickness ...