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

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were ...

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima near the end ...

The world entered its nuclear epoch 80 years ago on August 6, 1945. The US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of ...

U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. An early newspaper account said “the obliterating blast” had “destroyed 60 ...

Garrett Graff’s “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky” and Iain MacGregor’s “The Hiroshima Men.” ...

Thousands bowed their heads in prayer in Hiroshima on Wednesday, as the city's mayor warned world leaders about the nuclear warheads that still exist.

On July 16, 1945, the Nuclear Age erupted into being, with the atomic bomb’s first test, code-named Trinity, in the desert of New Mexico.

Japan Bishops On Nuclear Bombs: ‘This Tragedy Must Not Be Repeated’ Hiroshima is the site of the world’s first atomic attack on Aug. 6, 1945, while Nagasaki was bombed three days later.