On Aug. 6, 1945, the first of two atomic bombs was dropped on Japan, in the city of Hiroshima. The 9,700-pound bomb, according to the Nuclear Museum, was dropped by The Enola Gay, a B-29 ...

The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by the United States on this day in 1945, during World War II. Get This Happened straight to your inbox ️ each day! Sign up here. Why was Hiroshima a ...

The only person officially recognized as having been twice in the bull's eye of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki passed away Monday. Tsutomu Yamaguchi, aged 93, had been hospitalized since ...

A photograph shared online for years shows the "atomic shadow" left by a human and a ladder after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima in 1945.

The watch’s hands are still set at 8:15 a.m. which is the moment the atomic bomb was detonated in Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945.

HIROSHIMA, Japan -- The crumbling brick and concrete walls of the Atomic Bomb Dome, as it is known today, rise above the Motoyasu River. The bomb so devastated Hiroshima, there are few other ...

John Hersey was a 32-year-old reporter who returned from Japan with in 1946 with a groundbreaking story that challenged U.S. government’s version of its atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, showing ...

Hiroshima – The vault under the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima was shown to members of the media on Wednesday. The ashes of about 70,000 victims of the U.S ...

A photograph shared online for years shows the "atomic shadow" left by a human and a ladder after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima in 1945.