On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...
Recently, footage has circulated on social media that appears to document one of the most unusual nuclear tests of the Cold War: the live detonation of a tactical atomic bomb dropped from a ...
Nearly 80 years ago, Kiyoshi Tanimoto documented the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing during World War II. His manuscript was recently found in a U.S. library ...
A trove of over 1,500 photographs taken in the months following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has been nominated for ...
On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Japan to force the unconditional surrender that ...
In 1945, the Trinity test signified the beginning of the nuclear age and marked the successful output of the Manhattan ...
Hiroshima, on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in a ceremony of remembrance, but it was an event also aimed, psychologically, at preventing ...
Why Did America Choose to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki? We look at the history and evidence of the devastating choice that ...
The Mk I bomb, nicknamed "Little Boy," was the first nuclear weapon used in warfare. It was delivered by the B-29 Enola Gay (on display at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum), it detonated at ...