Visitors to the Historic Wendover Airfield can now see how crews loaded some of the first atomic weapons during World War II, ...

A Japanese peace activist is hoping to promote global nuclear disarmament by keeping alive the stories of the atomic bomb ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

Inside a tiny museum in San Francisco's Japantown, there is a powerful message about the atrocities of the atomic bomb. "Americans see the bomb as a beautiful mushroom cloud, and the Japanese who were ...

The first reports were met with disbelief. A single bomb with the explosive force to level a city; a bomb, detonated with such intensity it burned as bright as — maybe, even brighter than — the sun.

Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major General Kenneth D. Nichols, continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality traits and qualifications, led to choosing ...

The U.S. altered the course of history 80 years ago when it dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. It was an audacious move that ultimately led to the end of World War II. The motivation and secrecy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In May 1945, near the end of World War II, Germany surrendered to the Allies but Japan refused. To end the war quickly, President ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eighty years after the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the city has transformed. The bombing immediately killed 80,000 ...

This week marks 80 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — killing an estimated 200,000 people. Historian Garrett Graff’s new book “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky” draws ...

It was August 6, 1945 when the world’s first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The airplane carrying that bomb - built in Omaha, Nebraska. It was called the Enola Gay. It was hand picked ...

Eighty years ago this week, the world passed into a terrifying new age. In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, mushroom clouds announced that humans not only could slaughter each other in staggering ...