Meet the WWII Reporter Who Almost Blew the A-Bomb’s Cover
What happened in 1944 when a vacationing reporter from Cleveland ran across a strange little town in New Mexico.
Posts tagged: Nuclear War
Donald Hornig, Who Baby-Sat the A-Bomb, Is Dead at 92
He was the last person to lay eyes on the original atomic bomb before it was detonated in 1945.
Ike’s Bluff: How a Canny President Kept the Cold War Cold
Wily Dwight Eisenhower used a combination of brains and befuddlement to keep nukes out of action in the 1950s.