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 ...

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima created a completely new material never before seen on Earth, scientists have discovered.

During the Cold War, scientists developed a controversial nuclear weapon designed to change how nuclear warfare worked. The ...

Atomic bomb survivors in Japan suffered not only in the immediate aftermath of the blasts, but also in postwar years. Now, ...

The devastating blast vaporized buildings, metal, glass, soil and water. When the substances cooled and condensed, the ...

Remnants of a destroyed building with a dome structure stand behind a black metal fence. The domed structure now known as the Hiroshima Peace Memorial is the one of the only remaining buildings that ...

Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa reacted angrily to U.S. congressional testimony that appeared to validate the atomic bombings ...

On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

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

It was a rare Earth metal. Often cited among the most destructive forces in history, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945 also gave rise to a rare metal never seen on Earth, per a ...

One winter’s day in June 1956, Britain detonated the largest weapon ever exploded in Australia. The test, code-named Mosaic G2, was conducted at Western Australia’s remote Montebello Islands, site of ...

Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.