Germany discovered nuclear fission before the rest of the world and possessed some of the greatest physicists in history.

HIROSHIMA -- Kayoko Mori, wife of the late historian and atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori, met in Hiroshima on June 3 with ...

On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...

The photographic record presented in “Trinity” reflects the painstaking preparations and arduous work of men who toiled ...

An investigative document written by the Allied occupation headquarters in Japan in 1948 revealed that 12 U.S. prisoners of ...

Summary and Key Points: It’s remembered for one world-altering act: the B-29 Superfortress (check out our original photos ...

That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire above a ...

NAGASAKI—The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum is changing its signage to include a more comprehensive explanation of the start of ...

Testimonies of hibakusha, or survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. UWAJIMA, Ehime -- A ...

The hair and ashes of a victim of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima have been identified as that of a 13-year-old girl after nearly eight decades, officials said on Monday. The city administration ...

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, ...

On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. That first-ever use of an atomic weapon killed an estimated 140,000 people in all, most of whom were civilians. Three ...