Manhattan Project scientists working on the Thin Man plutonium gun assembly. Two atomic bombs nicknamed Little Boy and Fat Man were detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, effectively ...

Bombshell shows how the government tried to minimize the effects of radiation and prevent independent reporting through ...

-On August 6, 1945, the B-29 Enola Gay dropped the "Little Boy" uranium bomb on Hiroshima, killing up to 166,000 people. [caption id="attachment_22456" align ...

Tri-Cities workers produced plutonium that powered the last atomic bomb 80 years ago. Relief in Tri-Cities that war ended without further lives lost; immense suffering in Japan Peace ceremonies in ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — August 6, 1945, marked a significant milestone in world history. On this day, the U.S. detonated the first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The bombing came years ...

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, ...

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...

When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic bomb, there are a few obvious choices. July 16, 1945, was the date of the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, and has been used by some as ...