Known for dropping the first atomic bomb on Japan in 1945, the B-29 remains the only aircraft to have deployed nuclear weapons in combat. -With a 141-foot wingspan, the Stratofortress could carry ...

Two B-29 planes have exploded on take-off in the ... 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 ...

Some of the atomic bombs lost years ago are still unaccounted ... Due to cloud cover over the city, Boeing B-29 Superfortress pilot, Major Charles Sweeney, set course for Nagasaki, where a nearly ...

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 ...

On August 1, 1950, the "decision was made to send the 9th Bomb Wing to Guam as an atomic task force immediately." Ten B-29s, loaded with unarmed atomic bombs, set out for the Pacific. On August 5 ...

He was pressing the lower notes on the keyboard and imitating the sound of an American B-29 engine ... to listen to the stories of hibakusha atomic bomb survivors like Mise.

along with the Enola Gay B-29 bomber that dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima. The project faced a storm of protests from veterans’ organizations, among other opponents. Noted politicians and ...

How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic bomb? The truth is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have built a weapon like the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki.