After the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two of Japan's largest cities, on August 6 and 9, 1945 ...

Aside from these shadows, the Hiroshima atomic bombing also exposed a weird survivor of the tragedy. It's not a person or an animal, but a nearly 400-year-old bonsai tree.

This was Trinity — the world’s first nuclear explosion, marking the moment humankind crossed into the atomic age.Part of The Manhattan Project led by J Robert Oppenheimer, Trinity was a codename ...

A few days later, on August 9, 1945, Bockscar flew over Nagasaki and dropped another atom bomb, Fat Man. The devastation killed thousands more and destroyed a substantial part of the city. These ...

Eighty years after the U.S. used the atomic bomb on Japan, debates on nuclear weapons remain fraught. In Los Alamos, the ...

The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, effectively ended WWII, but took thousands of civilian lives. On August 6, 1945, the bomb was dropped on the city.

Haunting photos have emerged of Hiroshima just a few weeks after it was decimated by an atomic bomb on August 6, 1945. Estimates vary on the number of people killed by the nuclear blast, with the ...

Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning biopic Oppenheimer has reignited public interest in the historic race to develop atomic weapons.. Yet, while the film dwells on J. Robert Oppenheimer's uneasy ...

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 ...

TOKYO, Jan. 6, 2010 -- The only person officially recognized as having been twice in the bull's eye of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki has died. Tsutomu Yamaguchi, aged 93, passed away ...