But Hiroshima has not been targeted. Although B-29 planes have been flying over the city, they never drop bombs. Japanese civilians have become so accustomed to the planes, they have given the B ...

Today is the anniversary of Hiroshima – when an atomic bomb nicknamed Little Boy was dropped on Japan. On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was left devastated, with up to 166,00 dying in the blast ...

In Hiroshima the air raid sirens had sounded twice that morning already. On both occasions the all clear followed swiftly. Enola Gay faced no resistance as it dropped the bomb. Forty five seconds ...

That came three days after the nuclear attack on Hiroshima, which killed 140,000 ... from where the bomb dropped, couldn’t talk about what happened for years, not only because of the painful ...

Donated to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum by Yukio Nakata. At seventeen seconds after 8:15 a.m. on August 6 1945, the US B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped the “ultimate weapon”, the atomic bomb ...

Why were bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? IN July 1945 US President Harry Truman gave the order for atomic bombs - developed by Manhattan Project scientists - to be dropped on six Japanese ...

Only two atomic bombs have ever been dropped in the history of mankind, both by the United States in 1945 in the final stages of the second world war. The first hit Hiroshima on August 6 ...

As the city of Oak Ridge races to once again be the U.S. capital of uranium enrichment, one company hopes to commercialize a ...

The United States dropped an atomic bomb on each Japanese city on August 6 and 9, 1945 -- the only times nuclear weapons have ...

The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have invited US President Donald Trump to visit this year for the 80th anniversary of ...

Nearly 80 years have passed since the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While the suffering of the survivors, known as hibakusha, is well-documented, the suffering of Korean ...

"We sincerely hope that you will abandon the idea of nuclear dependence," reads the letter to the US president ...