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

The atomic bomb explosion over Hiroshima not only changed the course of history. It also created materials never before seen in nature, formed under physical conditions that cannot be reproduced ...

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.

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

Devastation on Aug. 9, 1945 when the United States detonated a second atomic bomb, this time over Nagasaki, Japan. Temuri Tanaka was there. He tells Global News he remembers the explosion, a blast of ...

At Hiroshima's atomic bomb site, he learns how the explosion devastated the city and why one famous structure remained ...

After decades of 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing, scientists studying tiny glass particles found around Hiroshima Bay have ...

Almost 81 years after the atomic bombing of the Japanese city, scientists have discovered previously unknown material in Hiroshima Bay. The results of the study were reported on July 29 by the journal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In May 1945, near the end of World War II, Germany surrendered to the Allies but Japan refused. To end the war quickly, President ...