Summary and Key Points: It’s remembered for one world-altering act: the B-29 Superfortress (check out our original photos ...
Following the atomic bombings of Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet Union accelerated efforts to close the ...
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 ...
On August 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima became the first target of an atomic bomb in human history. In a single instant, a thriving city was reduced to ruins, and tens of thousands of lives were lost ...
Following the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo, hibakusha recounted stories of surviving the atomic bombings to an ...
The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.
Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...