Join us as we visit the Trinity Atomic Bomb Test Site, a pivotal location in WWII history. This site, only open to the public ...

A 110-degree day in Las Vegas, a city dedicated to entertainment and capitalism, seems a strange place to commemorate the 80 th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Yet Las Vegas has its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scene of destruction after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.Universal History Archive/Universal Images ...

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

It’s been 80 years since the United States detonated atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, resulting in more than 200,000 deaths. Garrett Graff’s new book The Devil Reached Toward the Sky is an ...

Tick. Tick. Tick. Eighty years ago this month, the doomsday clock jolted to life. Nothing was the same after Aug. 6, 1945. On that date, the first of two American atomic bombs went off in Hiroshima, ...

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.

Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the United States dropping the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The bombings ...

An exhibition currently being held in Tokyo traces the history of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb ...

Japan and the world commemorated the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, inaugurating a new era of human history. At 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber known as the ...

The U.S. altered the course of history 80 years ago when it dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. It was an audacious move that ultimately led to the end of World War II. The motivation and secrecy ...

Eighty years ago this week, the world passed into a terrifying new age. In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, mushroom clouds announced that humans not only could slaughter each other in staggering ...