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

The devastating blast vaporized buildings, metal, glass, soil and water. When the substances cooled and condensed, the ...

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

A local man who was just seven years old when he survived the Hiroshima bombing is sharing his story, as it's his mission to ...

HIROSHIMA--A survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima whose photo as a young girl made her the global “face” of ...

HIROSHIMA—An American man whose uncle died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima visited for the first time this year, retracing ...

Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.

TOKYO (AP) — Hiroshima on Thursday marked the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with its mayor criticizing major powers for waging wars and urging them to stop ...

America knew little about the bomb. It only discovered what had really happened a year later, at the newsagent’s, from the ...

On Aug 6, 2026, Hiroshima Day is marked to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing, pay tribute to the victims, honour survivors, and promote peace and nuclear disarmament ...

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

In an exclusive extract from his memoir, Kiyoshi Tanimoto describes the terrifying trip across the city to locate his wife and child ...