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

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

Exclusive: Tobias Ellwood says he gave MPs inaccurate information in 2018 provided by his department, the MoD ...

Ahead of the International Day against Nuclear Tests on August 29 2018, we met up with British atomic veterans who were present at test sites in Australia and the Pacific, to find out what it’s like ...

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

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.

Andy Haverly posted the proposal as a preprint on arXiv in January 2025. At the time, he was a computer engineering graduate ...

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 ...

When the world’s first atomic bomb sent searing light across the Jornada del Muerto desert in 1945, Anastacio Cordova of Tularosa was only 4 years old — a boy who drank water from cisterns and ...

The general public has long had a degree of wariness and uncertainty surrounding nuclear reactors, thanks largely to the fact that many associate nuclear energy with nuclear bombs. That's fair, thanks ...