Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day commemorate the devastation caused by the atomic bombings during World War II. The catastrophic impact of the bombings— ‘Little Boy’ on August 6 and ‘Fat Man’ on August ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A blinding light like thousands of strobe lights — that's how Toshiko Tanaka described the morning, 80 years ago today, the United ...

On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

The United States dropped two nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6, and Aug. 9, 1945, respectively, bringing about the end of World War II and ushering in the ...

Wednesday marked the 78th anniversary of the second atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Japan, this time on Nagasaki, a city with a rich history of Christian martyrs from the 16th and 17th ...

Cockroaches are not indestructible and cannot survive nuclear explosions. Their cells divide less frequently, making them ...

This is the fourth installment in a five-part series on the “atomic-bombed violin.” The stringed instrument, once owned by a ...