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

HIROSHIMA--Having survived the atomic bomb that flattened his hometown of Hiroshima when he was nine months old, Kunihiko Sakuma has never forgotten the stain it left on him in the eyes of some of his ...

In 1955, Kiyoshi Tanimoto was blindsided on ‘This Is Your Life’ when producers introduced Robert Lewis from the ‘Enola Gay.’ ...

The Hiroshima atomic bombing produced a microscopic metallic alloy with a structure never previously observed by scientists. The material, discovered decades later in debris collected from Hiroshima ...

At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the course of World War II and the history of Japan changed when the US military dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Now, on the 81 st anniversary of the bombing, an ...

An investigative document written by the Allied occupation headquarters in Japan in 1948 revealed that 12 U.S. prisoners of war died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945. While the U.S.

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 ...

On the morning the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945, resident Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a Methodist minister, was on his way out of town transporting a handcart of items to a ...

Leaflets dropped on cities in Japan warning civilians about the atomic bomb, dropped c. August 6, 1945. TO THE JAPANESE ...

In August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.The bombs were dropped on Hiroshima on ...

The scene of destruction after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb ...