On August 6, 1945 — 81 years ago — the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the ...

As the book makes clear, there is not much to see at Trinity nowadays. A few dilapidated buildings; a commemorative obelisk; ...

Ahead of the International Day against Nuclear Tests on August 29 2018, we met up with British atomic veterans who were present at test sites in Australia and the Pacific, to find out what it’s like ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — More than 50,000 people gathered at this city’s Peace Memorial Park on Thursday to remember the victims of the world’s first atomic bombing and hear a renewed appeal for world ...

The Navy assembled more than 90 ships for nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll. Eighty years later, warship wrecks remain beneath the lagoon.

The general public has long had a degree of wariness and uncertainty surrounding nuclear reactors, thanks largely to the fact that many associate nuclear energy with nuclear bombs. That's fair, thanks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scene of destruction after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.Universal History Archive/Universal Images ...

An aerial photo of the atomic cloud rising over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. (US Library of Congress) The world changed forever on 6 August 1945. That was the day humanity first deliberately turned the ...