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.

The United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare on Aug. 6, 1945. The olive-green steel cylinder called “Little Boy” exploded above Hiroshima, Japan, killing tens of thousands of ...

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 ...

Morris and Lona Cohen began spying for the USSR at the beginning of World War II and went virtually undetected across two ...

Nagasaki marked on Sunday the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern city, as the mayor called ...

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 ...

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

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 ...