The U.S. altered the course of history 80 years ago when it dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. It was an audacious move that ultimately led to the end of World War II. The motivation and secrecy ...

Pioneer Works is presenting the hourlong documentary the bomb in an installation inspired by the design of nuclear weapon command and control centers. The film, directed by Kevin Ford, Smriti Keshari, ...

The conclusion of World War II came with a daunting choice that forever changed history: the use of atomic bombs on Japan. But few know this fact: there was a third atomic bomb, perhaps bound for a ...

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people and a second bomb on Nagasaki (Aug. 9) killed ...

(WDBJ) - On this day, 80 years ago, a United States B-29 bomber dropped the first atomic bomb, nicknamed “Little Boy”, on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. The strike killed about 140,000 people with ...

The First Quebec Conference, 1943: (clockwise from top left) Mr Mackenzie King, Winston Churchill, Alexander Cambridge, Earl of Athlone, and President Roosevelt - Bettmann Manhattan, Mayson, Maud. One ...

I was sitting with an old soldier named Ray Gallagher. He held in his hands a small doll. The doll’s name was Marianne and it was the doll that he took with him to war. It had been given to him by his ...

Eighty years ago this week, the world passed into a terrifying new age. In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, mushroom clouds announced that humans not only could slaughter each other in staggering ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 149. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, shocked the world. It marked the dangerous new dawn of nuclear ...