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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The granddaughter of Paul W. Tibbets Jr. — the pilot who flew the bomber Enola Gay that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II — called the Trump administration flagging photos of the ...

HIROSHIMA--A special exhibition is being held to showcase images and videos documenting this western city’s destruction from the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing ahead of the 80th anniversary of the event.

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 ...

Around 140,000 people were killed in Hiroshima when the United States detonated an atomic bomb over the Japanese city on August 6, 1945. A further 74,000 were killed by a US nuclear bomb in ...

The number of visitors to the 70-year-old Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum documenting the 1945 atomic bombing of the ...

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 ...

The newspapers have done an adequate job of guessing about the principles of the atomic bomb and about the possibilities of atomic power in the future. The accompanying article, composed mainly of ...