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Incidents Schlosser discusses in the book include the 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion, the 1966 Palomares B-52 crash, and the 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash. [2] [3] It was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for History. [4] A documentary film based on the book aired as an episode of American Experience on PBS in early 2017. [5]
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb (2012) The Truth About Chernobyl (1991) U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History (1988) The Unfinished Twentieth Century (2001) Uranium Wars: The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age (2009) Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (2005) We Almost Lost Detroit ...
Hacker, Barton C. Elements of Controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and Radiation Safety in Nuclear Weapons Testing, 1947–1974. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0-520-08323-3; Hansen, Chuck. U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History. Arlington, TX: Aerofax, 1988. ISBN 978-0-517-56740-1
United States' nuclear testing series summary Series or years Years covered Tests [Summ 1] Devices fired Devices with un-known yield Peace-ful use tests Non-PTBT tests [Summ 2] Yield range [Summ 3] Total yield (kilotons) [Summ 4] Notes Trinity: 1945 1: 1: 1: 21 21: First nuclear weapons test, conducted as part of the Manhattan Project.
The plant has been the main U.S. site for assembling and disassembling atomic bombs since 1975. It produced its last new bomb in 1991, and has dismantled thousands of weapons retired from military ...
The Atomic Energy Act also established the United States Congress Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, which had broad legislative and executive oversight jurisdiction over nuclear matters and became one of the powerful congressional committees in U.S. history. [45]
Several wildfires are scorching the Texas panhandle with thousands evacuated
In 1988, Hansen wrote the book U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History, [3] which, along with great detail about the process of developing, testing and administering atomic weapons was critical of the U.S. Defense Department, the Atomic Energy Commission, and some other government agencies.