I was standing at Trinity, ground zero, where the first atomic bomb exploded at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. Seismographs in Tucson detected the explosion from 280 miles away.

Take an in-depth look at how the atomic bomb "Little Boy" worked, the first nuclear weapon ever used in warfare. Dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, the bomb marked the beginning of ...

The first atomic bomb would eventually kill over 70,000 people instantly and hasten the end of the war against Japan. And the aircraft that delivered Little Boy was as futuristic as the weapon itself.

The B61-13 is expected to have a maximum yield of around 360 kilotons—roughly 25 times more powerful than the “Little Boy” atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

Army Air Force Colonel Tibbets, 30, was the commander and pilot of the Enola Gay on Aug. 6, 1945, when the crew of the B-29 Superfortress dropped an atomic bomb dubbed "Little Boy" on the city of ...

They include the removal of digital files dedicated to accomplishments of women in the military, the esteemed Tuskegee Airmen and the aircraft that dropped the “Little Boy” atomic bomb on Japan.

References to the aircraft—which dropped the first war-time atomic bomb—were flagged for removal from Pentagon photos and online posts as part of a DEI purge, presumably because of the word ...

Real Photo of 'Atomic Shadow' Taken After Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima? Not Quite The picture has been widely shared for years and purportedly shows the aftermath of the explosion in the ...

For reference, the Little Boy atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima contained about 141 pounds of enriched uranium. Samples seized by law enforcement did test positive for weapons-grade plutonium ...