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

Nuclear reactors and atomic bombs both rely on nuclear fission, but does that mean that a reactor could turn into an atomic ...

The printing press, the lightbulb, the internal combustion engine and the computer moved the world into a mostly better ...

Eight decades after the Hiroshima atomic bombing, the event remains a defining moment. The bombings accelerated World War ...

The decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima continues to stir debate today.

Eighty-one years ago, the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and on Nagasaki on August 9, ...

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

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

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

The devastating blast vaporized buildings, metal, glass, soil and water. When the substances cooled and condensed, the process created spherical glassy grains—and some of them seem to contain a previo ...

When the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, temperatures near the fireball soared to several thousand degrees Celsius, instantly vaporising or melting concrete, steel, glass and ...