The Fat Man
The Fat Man is not a description of a man but a name used to describe a bomb that was eventually dropped on August 9, 1945, over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. This rare photo is a piece of history that everyone should see.
This is how the bomb looked like before it destroyed the lives of Japanese citizens, and prior to it turning Nagasaki into a heap of ashes. It also offers a glimpse of a few of the secrets of the American military.
The First-Ever Nuclear Bomb
What seems to look like a photo of a factory worker beside a huge machine may not raise eyebrows. But look again. This rare photo was taken in 1945 in the desert of New Mexico. What you think is a factory is actually the place where the government did its “Trinity” project.
Who knew that an inconspicuous desert would be the site of such a destructive time in history?
Nuclear Explosion
After the United States government dropped nuclear bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945, it detonated a thermonuclear device as a trial in the Pacific Ocean, in 1952. It was part of the United States' Operation Ivy.
The first test of a thermonuclear device – nicknamed “Ivy Mike” – was blown up in a top-secret place within the Pacific Ocean’s Marshall Islands, on November 1st, 1952.
John McCain
This is a photo taken in Vietnam at the moment when the late Senator John McCain was being taken out of the water by Vietnamese citizens right after his plane was shot down. McCain was a United States airman who was assigned to fly over Vietnam.
The moment his plane went down and crashed into a body of water in Hanoi, Vietnam, the locals saw McCain as the enemy and took him to prison. This photo was taken in 1967.
Area 51 Aircraft
Area 51 has long been the site and stuff of conspiracy theories. It has been described as a magnet for Unidentified Flying Objects. Is it? This photo of an aircraft may be one of the reasons why it was thought of as such.
This flying object is actually an experimental aircraft made by the United States Air Force – one of the few aircraft created for the purpose of trying out various air carriers. Numerous similar aircrafts created by the government were seen over the southwest region further contributing to the myth of UFOs.