When atomic bombs struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the blinding light and heat from the explosions left only shadows of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A photo supposedly showing the "atomic shadow" of a human and a ladder that was created when the U.S. dropped atomic bombs above Japan at the end of World War II has been frequently shared online ...

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 ...

Nearly eight decades ago, the United States dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and, a few days later, on Nagasaki, Japan. That week in August changed the world forever; ever since, the world’s ...

Nicknamed after Winston Churchill, "Fat Man" was the second nuclear weapon to be deployed in combat after the US dropped a 5-ton atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Agnew, who became ...

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 ...

technology to colorize black-and-white photographs of Hiroshima’s atomic bomb survivors. Over the years, many atomic bomb survivors (hibakusha) have overcome hatred and sadness in hope that ...