On July 16, 1945, at exactly 5:29:45 a.m., the world entered the atomic age, with the successful testing of the most powerful weapon known to man. "Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot ...

Historians often suggest that America’s super-weapon forced Hirohito to surrender in 1945. Look closer, and the truth is more ...

Photos were shot by 27 people and one Japanese organization between Aug. 6, 1945, when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, killing around 140,000 people, and December of the same year.

A 10-year-old boy from the Japanese capital of Tokyo has begun telling the stories of people who survived the 1945 atomic ...

Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing ... our message to make Nagasaki the final place where an atomic bomb is ever dropped.” A wake is scheduled for Sunday, and ...

Leaflets dropped on cities in Japan warning civilians about the atomic bomb, dropped c. August 6, 1945. Aftermath of the August 6, 1945 Atomic Bomb blast in Hiroshima, 1946. Library of Congress ...

Who was Paul W. Tibbets Jr.? Army Air Force Colonel Tibbets, 30, was the commander and pilot of the Enola Gay on Aug. 6, 1945, when the crew of the B-29 Superfortress dropped an atomic bomb dubbed ...

Known as the Trinity test, the first atomic bomb was tested on July 16, 1945, in the Jornada del Muerto desert — more than 200 miles south of Los Alamos. Oppenheimer chose the code name ...

It’s been 75 years since the US military dropped the atomic bomb on the ... damage the "Little Boy" bomb could cause when it was dropped on Hiroshima on 6 June 1945, but believed it was ...

The number of visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum documenting the devastation caused by the U.S. atomic bombing ...

The official US justification for the dropping of the two atomic bombs was to force the Japanese government to surrender, which it did on 14 August 1945. Some historians have speculated that the ...