The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima is believed, by some estimates, to have killed as many as 146,000 people, once injuries, ...

How an atomic weapon is built, and what the recent Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iran may mean for the country’s nuclear ambitions.

Take an in-depth look at how the atomic bomb "Little Boy" worked, the first nuclear weapon ever used in warfare. Dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, the bomb marked the beginning of the ...

Japan’s Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui on Wednesday encouraged President Trump to visit the city to understand the impact of ...

The letter originally in German was later translated into English by theoretical physicist Herbert Jehle, with help from ...

Pilot Robert Morgan’s B-29 “Dauntless Dotty” roared into the skies, delivering destruction that changed the course of WWII. Follow the story of this powerful bomber and its crew as they faced deadly ...

While a child in wartime Vietnam, Anh Duong vowed to one day help the soldiers who saved her. She and her Navy team helped ...

We developed the atomic bomb under the stimulus of the fear that the Germans might be at it. We deliberated at length on the use of the bomb against Japan; indeed it was Colonel Stimson who initiated ...

Three days later, another nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. A week later, Japan surrendered. The bomb brought World War Two to a sudden end, but was it right to use it?

By Steve Neavling The FBI will reopen investigations into three high-profile incidents: the 2023 discovery of cocaine at the White House, the pipe bombs planted near the Capitol on January 6, 2021, ...