1,560 miles north of Tinian is the Japanese city of Hiroshima ... For the men who developed the atomic bomb and masterminded the mission, their families and the rest of the world finally know ...

After being told of plans for the bombs, in June 1944 he was shipped to the Pacific Island of Tinian, where his job was to test ignition switches for the atomic bomb “Fat Man”, which was later ...

The island of Tinian was used to launch U.S. bomber raids on Japan during World War II, including the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Early in the morning of August 6, 1946, a US Air Force B29 bomber, the Enola Gay, took off from the its base in Tinian ... Three days later the second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of ...

On July 26, 1945, the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis landed on Tinian Island in the northern Pacific and delivered components for the atomic bomb that 11 days later would be dropped on Hiroshima.

James Nolan departed for the Pacific island of Tinian, carrying highly enriched uranium intended for the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The purpose of his trip to Tinian was to oversee the health of ...

WSJ’s Niharika Mandhana traveled to Tinian Island, where the U.S. is reviving a vast World War II-era airfield. Photo: DVIDS A global look at the economic and cultural forces shaping our world.