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

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 ...

President Truman took to the airwaves the day of the leveling of the first city, Hiroshima, lying that it was “a military ...

As Japan solemnly marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki this week, the world reflects on one of the darkest and most defining moments of modern history. On 6 ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

Before the Trinity Test in July 1945, some of the world's leading physicists considered an unsettling possibility: could the first atomic bomb ignite Earth's atmosphere? This documentary explores the ...

Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the United States dropping the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The bombings ...

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.

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.

Whether its apple pie and baseball or the atomic bomb and the "whites-only" sign, we can learn a lot about the last 250 years ...