A blinding light like thousands of strobe lights — that's how Toshiko Tanaka described the morning, 80 years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On Aug. 6, 1945, the ...

The Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is so large that it couldn't fit into the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

The first reports were met with disbelief. A single bomb with the explosive force to level a city; a bomb, detonated with such intensity it burned as bright as — maybe, even brighter than — the sun.

Editor's Note: This article contains graphic descriptions of the effects of the atomic bomb. I was angered and dismayed by Jerry Saltz’s August 6 Instagram post on the 80th anniversary of the American ...

BIG COUNTRY, Texas — A man from Haskell was killed in the Hiroshima blast 80 years ago. On August 6, 1945, the world was changed when the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

SEATTLE — Eighty years after the United States dropped the atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, killing 140,000 people by the end of 1945, a Seattle community gathered Wednesday evening to ...

Tsutomu Yamaguchi is known to be the sole individual recognised to have survived both atomic attacks in Japan during the ...