It is 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August, leading ...

Three weather planes will fly an hour ahead and ... For the men who developed the atomic bomb and masterminded the mission, their families and the rest of the world finally know the top secret ...

On February 5, 1958, during a training exercise, an F-86 fighter plane ... from the bomb casing and the explosives that caused the implosion," Stephen Schwartz, the author of Atomic Audit: The ...

And they were willing to devote huge amounts of resources to building rockets, jet planes, and other forms of deadly and sometimes exotic forms of military technology. So why not the atomic bomb?

On 6 August 1945 at 08:15 Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber plane named Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was the first time an atomic bomb had ever been used in a war.

Ten B-29s, loaded with unarmed atomic bombs, set out for the Pacific. On August 5, one of the planes crashed during take off from Fairfield-Suisun Air Force base near San Francisco, killing a ...

After landing, the pilot announced that a bomb might have been planted on the plane and ordered everyone to use the emergency exit slide. There was no panic on the plane, although many passengers ...

Weighing 14 pounds and responsible for approximately 80,000 deaths, the heart of the "Fat Man" atomic bomb was detonated ... flew in a plane along slide Enola Gay and took the only footage of ...

Fukahori represented the bomb victims at a ceremony, making his “pledge for peace,” saying: “I am determined to send our message to make Nagasaki the final place where an atomic bomb is ever ...