In the wake of the blast, these eerie shadows were left etched into surfaces across the city—almost like a photo negative of ...

Some 74,000 people were killed in Nagasaki in the US bombing in 1945, three days after Hiroshima. As the town’s mayor, Shiro Suzuki, calls to "stop armed conflicts immediately". View on euronews ...

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 explosion was so powerful people were vaporized leaving nothing behind except for their "nuclear shadow." The attack on Hiroshima has gone down as one of the deadliest days in Japanese history ...

First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective memory—the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Nuclear boffin Alex Wellerstein explained what to expect if you're ever caught in the crossfire of an atomic bomb - and ...

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: His grandfather created the atomic bomb. Now Charles Oppenheimer wants a ...

are allowed to have nuclear weapons. Anybody else is not allowed under that treaty. and nobody else should have. have ...

This summer, the Atomic Museum opened the exhibit featuring a collection of artifacts that tell a more complete story of the ...

On this day in 1945, the world was changed forever when the USA dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing thousands of civilians within seconds ...

On the 80th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Nagasaki, the city's mayor warns that humanity faces an "imminent existential crisis." ...

World War II, after the explosion of the atom bomb in August 1945, Hiroshima, Japan. Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (TOKYO) — The atomic bombings of ...