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

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

On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, one of the events that led to ...

Eight decades after the Hiroshima atomic bombing, the event remains a defining moment. The bombings accelerated World War ...

The decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima continues to stir debate today.

More than 50,000 gathered at Peace Memorial Park to remember the victims of the world’s first atomic bombing and hear renewed ...

The atomic bomb dropped over Hirsoshima vaporized buildings, metals, soil, water, and people, and about 70% of the city's ...

Eighty-one years ago on Thursday, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, reducing the city to ruins, killing tens of thousands of people and bringing the world “face to face with the ...

The printing press, light bulb, internal combustion engine and computer moved the world into a mostly better future.

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

When the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, temperatures near the fireball soared to several thousand degrees Celsius, instantly vaporising or melting concrete, steel, glass and ...

A microscopic particle from the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing has revealed a scientific secret after 80 years. Researchers have discovered a never-before-seen metallic alloy, opening a new chapter in ...