On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On Aug. 9, 1945, a second bombing was dropped on Nagasaki. The atomic bombs instantly took thousands of ...

It was August 6, 1945 when the world’s first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The airplane carrying that bomb - built in Omaha, Nebraska. It was called the Enola Gay. It was hand picked ...

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.

The film “Oppenheimer,” directed by Christopher Nolan, was released to critical acclaim July 21, and detailed the construction, usage and consequences of the atomic bombs — which had ties to a Lorain ...

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 American Museum of Science and Energy Foundation has received a $17,000 grant from the state of Tennessee, which it will use ...

The United States began developing the atom bomb in military effort called the Manhattan Project. The race to create this weapon kicked off after three chemists in Berlin, 1938, split a uranium atom ...

The story of the Mars Bluff bombing accident is one of the oddest events to happen in the United States during the 20th century. Yet, the day in March 1958 when the Air Force nearly nuked South ...