On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

The United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare on Aug. 6, 1945. The olive-green steel cylinder called ...

Eight decades after the Hiroshima atomic bombing, the event remains a defining moment. The bombings accelerated World War ...

When an atomic bomb detonates, it produces a unique chemical environment that’s nearly impossible to mimic in a lab—and amid ...

The decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima continues to stir debate today.

On 6 August and 9 August 1945, two cities in Japan, which are Hiroshima and Nagasaki, were the only places in the world where ...

Nuclear reactors and atomic bombs both rely on nuclear fission, but does that mean that a reactor could turn into an atomic ...

Such extreme conditions produced an unusual substance unlike anything scientists have ever recorded. The microscopic fragment ...

British forces detonated nineteen underground mines during the Battle of Messines in 1917. This created the largest man-made ...

When the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, temperatures near the fireball soared to several thousand ...

Researchers believe the newly discovered metal could help in developing lighter and more heat-resistant materials in the ...

Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.