TOKYO -- The atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later brought a scale of destruction the world had never seen. Many who survived the blasts died in the weeks, ...

HANDLE BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS. IT WAS 80 YEARS AGO TODAY, THE U.S. DROPPED THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB ON THE JAPANESE CITY OF HIROSHIMA. THREE DAYS LATER, A SECOND BOMB WAS DROPPED ON NAGASAKI. THEY ...

Tick. Tick. Tick. Eighty years ago this month, the doomsday clock jolted to life. Nothing was the same after Aug. 6, 1945. On that date, the first of two American atomic bombs went off in Hiroshima, ...

Hiroshima survivor recounts atomic blast 80 years ago Setsuko Thurlow was 13 when the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945. In 2017, she shared her story as part of her ...

This week marks 80 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — killing an estimated 200,000 people. Historian Garrett Graff’s new book “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky” draws ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cameron’s upcoming film, Ghosts of Hiroshima, will focus on the aftermath of the atomic bombs in Japan - Universal History Archive ...

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...

It was two years ago that the Oscar-winning blockbuster 'Oppenheimer' sent the message that it was the Americans, or rather one American in particular, who was responsible for the atomic explosion ...

The front page of the Parkersburg News from Aug. 15, 1945. (Archive Image) Eighty years ago last week our country did something that had never been done before or since. They exploded an “atom bomb” ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

Einstein’s genius enabled the atomic age, but his conscience rejected its darkest creation. This piece uncovers why he ...

July 16 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1790, the U.S. Congress designated the District of Columbia as the permanent seat of the U.S. government. In 1935, the world's first parking meter was ...