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

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

Remember building model molecules with balls and sticks in chemistry class? You have J. Robert Oppenheimer to thank for that, as a quantum chemist explains.

Thirty years after the bombing of Nagasaki, a US physicist who helped to assemble the bomb revealed to the BBC why the blast couldn't be stopped.

NINOSHIMA, Japan (AP) — When the first atomic bomb detonated 80 years ago on Aug. 6, thousands of the dead and dying were brought to the small, rural island of Ninoshima, just south of Hiroshima, by ...

Nagasaki marked the 79th anniversary of its atomic bombing at the end of World War II at a ceremony Friday eclipsed by the absence of the American ambassador and other Western envoys in response to ...

The printing press, light bulb, internal combustion engine and computer moved the world into a mostly better future.

NAGASAKI -- "Niju hibaku," or "double exposure to atomic bombings," refers to having been in both Hiroshima and then Nagasaki ...

An aerial photo of the atomic cloud rising over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. (US Library of Congress) The world changed ...

An event allowing participants to engage in simulated dialogue with hibakusha, or atomic bomb survivors, through an ...

HIROSHIMA—An American man whose uncle died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima visited for the first time this year, retracing his uncle’s final days and imagining how his life ended in the inferno of ...

Surprisingly, one of the best places in the Pacific Ocean to find an abundance of corals, tropical fish, and sharks is Bikini Atoll, a former United States nuclear test site. In t ...