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

Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.

Remember building model molecules with balls and sticks in chemistry class? You have J. Robert Oppenheimer to thank for that, ...

Sometimes inventions save countless lives. Sometimes they end just as many. Sometimes, they do both. The United States ...

A local man who was just seven years old when he survived the Hiroshima bombing is sharing his story, as it's his mission to ...

Whether its apple pie and baseball or the atomic bomb and the "whites-only" sign, we can learn a lot about the last 250 years ...

On August 6, 1945 — 81 years ago — the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.

On August 9, 1945, a U.S. B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" on the Japanese city of Nagasaki three days ...

The extreme conditions of atomic bomb explosions create “uncontrolled microexperiments” that, in Hiroshima, forged a never-before-seen metallic alloy ...

Hiroshima on Thursday marked the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with its mayor criticizing major powers for waging wars a ...

The devastating blast vaporized buildings, metal, glass, soil and water. When the substances cooled and condensed, the ...

"Nuclear weapons are not a ‘necessary evil’ but an ‘absolute evil,’ and can never coexist with humanity,” Mayor Shiro Suzuki ...