Capt. Robert A. Lewis, the co-pilot of the Enola Gay, scribbled thoughts in a notebook while the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan.

Hydrogen bombs cause a bigger explosion, which means the shock waves, blast, heat and radiation all have larger reach than an ...

Ten-year-old Stanley Finch left the house to pick up his newspapers for his daily delivery of the Knoxville Journal. It was 1945. Up and down West Outer Drive and the surrounding streets he walked, ...

NAGASAKI, Japan -- The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that killed tens of thousands and left survivors who hope their harrowing memories ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United States dropping an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945, hastened the end of World War II. Japan formally ...

For pacifists, the answer is clear: since any deliberate killing is wrong, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945 was wrong about two hundred thousand times over ...

At the height of World War II, as the Manhattan Project raced toward the atomic bomb, another far stranger weapon was being ...

Hiroshima, on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in a ceremony of remembrance, but it was an event also aimed, psychologically, at preventing ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This month marked the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, helping bring an end to World War II. Myra Mansfield shares an excerpt of her ...