This summer, the NJAHS resurrected an exhibit from 30 years ago to remember the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic ...

The Tri-Cities history is linked to the atomic bomb, after B Reactor at the Hanford nuclear reservation, shown circa 1944-45, ...

There are not many people that have survived a nuclear attack. Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only person that officially survived ...

Fat Man” was originally intended for a different Japanese city. Three days after the Enola Gay dropped warfare's first atomic ...

First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective ...

Lt. Col. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle famously led the first U.S. strike against the Japanese homeland during World War II, and Doolittle as a lieutenant general also had a little-known role by ...

On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

On Aug. 15, Japan surrendered. The Japanese empire’s bloody march through Asia was over. But the impact on civilians lingered ...

The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the United States was not necessary, an acclaimed novelist and speechwriter has ...

The Japanese city, on which America dropped the first atomic bomb near the end of World War II, is commemorating the ...

Today is an odd and somewhat unsettling confluence of events. It is the 80th anniversary of the day our country dropped an ...

Eighty years after the dropping of the first atomic bomb, Hiroshima’s survivors and their descendants describe how health ...