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

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

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This is a 1960 photo of a U.S. nuclear weapon of the uranium bomb Little Boy type that was detonated over Hiroshima in ...

At 5:29am on July 16, 1945, humanity entered a dangerous new era as the world's very first nuclear explosion blossomed over New Mexico. As the blast, known as the Trinity nuclear test, vaporised the ...

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.

“I AM become death, the shatterer of worlds.” These words from the Hindu scripture, Bhagavad Gita, flashed through physicist Robert Oppenheimer’s mind as he watched the first atomic bomb test in a ...

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 ...

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