Key Points and Summary – Eighty years ago this week, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, forcing the end of ...

I've traveled to Hiroshima as part of a Catholic peace delegation. Our purpose is to commemorate the victims of the atomic ...

On the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, a United States warplane dropped an atomic bomb on the western Japanese city of Hiroshima, ...

A Hiroshima atomic bomb simulation shows the extent of the damage done to the city 80 years ago when the Little Boy bomb was ...

Although nuclear weapons have thus served as a deterrent, the decision to unleash such a force of devastation was difficult ...

SEATTLE — Eighty years after the United States dropped the atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, killing 140,000 ...

It was a scene depicting horrifying devastation that was so chillingly accurate that nuclear experts praised director James ...

The order to attack Japanese cities with atomic bombs was issued on July 25, 1945, by acting U.S. Army Chief of Staff Thomas ...

Just three months after the end of the war in Europe, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

August 6, 1945 marks a turning point in modern warfare and human history; it’s the day the United States dropped an atomic ...

In the absence of special events, the plane that bombed Hiroshima will quietly remain on display at the National Air & Space ...

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 resulted in Japan's surrender, ending World War II and ushering in the Atomic Age.