How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic bomb? The truth is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have ...

On August 6, 1945 — 81 years ago — the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.

The atomic bomb would eventually become one of the greatest sources of fear in American life, but the country's first ...

The Manhattan Project produced the plutonium that changed history, but left behind a radioactive legacy America is still ...

“In August of 1945, the city of Hiroshima was destroyed in about nine seconds by a single atomic bomb.” So begins the 1981 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scene of destruction after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.Universal History Archive/Universal Images ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major General Kenneth D. Nichols, continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably ...

At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the course of World War II and the history of Japan changed when the US military dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Now, on the 81 st anniversary of the bombing, an ...

In both his scholarship and his teaching, Nolan examines the disparate narratives that took shape after the bombing, as the ...

An aerial photo of the atomic cloud rising over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. (US Library of Congress) The world changed forever on 6 August 1945. That was the day humanity first deliberately turned the ...

Leo Szilard and other Manhattan Project scientists sent a petition asking President Truman not to drop atomic bombs. Oppenheimer opposed the petition.

Korean-Japanese baseball legend Isao Harimoto, who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima to record the most hits in Japanese baseball history, has died at the age of 86 in Tokyo.