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.

How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic bomb? The truth is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have built a weapon like the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

HIROSHIMA, Japan — More than 50,000 people gathered at this city’s Peace Memorial Park on Thursday to remember the victims of the world’s first atomic bombing and hear a renewed appeal for world ...

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Amy Shira Teitel examines the overlooked scientific discovery that could have changed the course of World War II LOS ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scene of destruction after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.Universal History Archive/Universal Images ...

The men who sabotaged Hitler’s heavy water plant fought the Nazis, survived the Norwegian wilderness, and carried on knowing ...

Sometimes inventions save countless lives. Sometimes they end just as many. Sometimes, they do both. The United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare on Aug. 6, 1945. The ...

The surviving head of a wooden Virgin Mary statue destroyed in the 1945 US atomic bombing of Nagasaki is set to travel to the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. THE FIRST NUCLEAR reactor on earth went critical 2 billion years ago in ...

The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce issued a calendar for tourists, listing the scheduled times of the bomb detonations and the best places to view them.