Summary and Key Points: It’s remembered for one world-altering act: the B-29 Superfortress (check out our original photos ...

That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire above a ...

Built as a backup plutonium core for a possible third atomic bomb against Japan, the object later known as the Demon Core ...

An investigative document written by the Allied occupation headquarters in Japan in 1948 revealed that 12 U.S. prisoners of ...

On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

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

One of the “youngest atomic bomb survivors” will deliver a unique message when he speaks before students at the University of ...

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, ...

It was August 6, 1945 when the world’s first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The airplane carrying that bomb - built in Omaha, Nebraska. It was called the Enola Gay. It was hand picked ...

The first reports were met with disbelief. A single bomb with the explosive force to level a city; a bomb, detonated with such intensity it burned as bright as — maybe, even brighter than — the sun.

In the prosecution of the Second World War, the United States of America and the then Nazi Germany pursued two vastly different scientific weapons programs.