Japanese authorities were reportedly aware another strike could follow Hiroshima, but decided to endure it rather than surrender. The next attack, a plutonium bomb nicknamed Fat Man, fell on ...

At 8.15am it dropped the Little Boy uranium bomb, 9ft 10in long and weighing 9,700lb, from a height of 31,060ft. Three days after the Hiroshima blast, the "Fat Man" plutonium bomb was dropped on ...

Little Boy and Fat Man took the entire world by surprise ... even as they are rooted in the nuclear attacks of August 1945. People who live in Hiroshima say that the A-Bomb Dome seems to get smaller ...

The first hit Hiroshima on August 6, and three days later, another was dropped on Nagasaki. Codenamed "Fat Man" because of its round shape, the second bomb was much more powerful than the first.

This was unlike most school-age children of Hiroshima who were clearing fire ... where his job was to test ignition switches for the atomic bomb “Fat Man”, which was later used on Nagasaki.

For General Farrell, the man responsible ... across Japan. But Hiroshima has not been targeted. Although B-29 planes have been flying over the city, they never drop bombs. Japanese civilians ...

I now live in Sydney, but I was born and brought up in Hiroshima. When the bomb exploded on the morning of August 6 1945, I was a 13-year-old schoolgirl. I lived 1.7 kilometres away from where the ...

In this series, The Asahi Shimbun traces the impact on children of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ... the U.S. military dropped the “Fat Man” atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

Tuesday marks 79 years since an atomic bomb dropped by the United States devastated the Japanese city of Hiroshima ... sentiment was written by a man who, as a 14-year-old boy, saw scenes from ...