Courtesy of Barbara Kent The flakes were fallout from the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, the world’s first atomic bomb detonation. It took place at 5:29 a.m. local time atop a hundred-foot ...

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Late fashion editor Diana Vreeland declared it: “The most important thing since the discovery of the atomic bomb." From its inception in the 1940s to its modern iterations, the bikini's journey ...

A bomb was touched off in the music room, behind the organ on the second floor of the church. More than $1,000 of work recently completed was destroyed. There were no worshippers in the church.

He was on his way back to the office when the first atomic bomb ever used in combat, dubbed "Little Boy," detonated just two miles away. While 160,000 people died from the bomb, he survived but ...

Nagasaki Peace Statue as seen at the Peace Park in Nagasaki, western Japan (Image: AP) Suzuki said his city is returning to its "fundamental purpose" of the ceremony - to mourn the atomic bomb ...

A senior official of a group representing atomic bomb survivors in Japan says she would like the new pope to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost from the ...

The United States dropped its second atomic bomb on Nagasaki on Aug 9, 1945, three days after the first bombing of Hiroshima, together killing more than 210,000 people. Japan surrendered on Aug 15, ...

The "A" stands for "atomic," and was quickly adopted as a name for the earliest nuclear weapons. The A-Bomb wasn't just tested by the U.S., as it was infamously used twice against an enemy ...