U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. An early newspaper account said “the obliterating blast” had “destroyed 60 ...

In “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb,” Garrett M. Graff presents the accounts of hundreds of people who were part of the creation, ...

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima near the end ...

The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that killed tens of thousands ...

How close was Germany to developing an atomic bomb in World War 2? Learn the story of the secret commando raid to destroy ...

Women who survived the Nagasaki bomb tell CNN about its impact. Eighty years after the US bombings of Nagasaki, aging ...

Nichols: “The most important military effect was that it required only two atomic bombs to end the war. The Planned invasion ...

As they do each August, several Quaker protesters gathered at the intersection of State and Main streets in the center of ...

On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...

Nakamura was 21-years old and was hanging laundry outside around 11am when the bomb fell on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. She ...

Thousands bowed their heads in prayer in Hiroshima on Wednesday to mark 80 years since an atomic bomb levelled the Japanese ...