August 6, 1945 marked the beginning of the end of World War II when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima *** short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb ...

The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 wasn’t just powerful - it was built with a design as simple as a gun. Known as ...

The first atomic bomb was tested 80 years ago at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. However, most of us are not familiar with the Trinity Site simulation explosion weeks earlier on May 7, 1945. The ...

Leaflets dropped on cities in Japan warning civilians about the atomic bomb, dropped c. August 6, 1945. Aftermath of the August 6, 1945 Atomic Bomb blast in Hiroshima, 1946. Library of Congress ...

It was the night of August 9, 1945, merely hours after the US had unleashed the second atomic bomb on top of the Japanese ...

Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major General Kenneth D. Nichols, continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality traits and qualifications, led to choosing ...

Tri-Cities workers produced plutonium that powered the last atomic bomb 80 years ago. Relief in Tri-Cities that war ended without further lives lost; immense suffering in Japan Peace ceremonies in ...

TOKYO — Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing, who devoted his life to advocating for peace and campaigning against nuclear weapons, has died. He was 93. Fukahori died at a ...

" We The People" focuses on Iowan Harley Wilhelm. He is the Iowa State chemistry professor who helped stop a world war and ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of the remaining Japanese survivors are increasingly frustrated by growing nuclear threats and the acceptance ...