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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 ...

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At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the course of World War II and the history of Japan changed when the US military dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Now, on the 81 st anniversary of the bombing, an ...

Thirty years after the bombing of Nagasaki, a US physicist who helped to assemble the bomb revealed to the BBC why the blast couldn't be stopped.

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.

An investigative document written by the Allied occupation headquarters in Japan in 1948 revealed that 12 U.S. prisoners of war died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945. While the U.S.

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 ...

TOKYO — 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 ...