What makes the B61-12 particularly impressive is the bomb’s ability to adjust its destructive yield depending on the ...

To date, only the US has ever dropped nuclear bombs on a population — in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Still, the number of ...

The first hit Hiroshima on August 6, and three days later, another was dropped on Nagasaki. Codenamed "Fat Man" because of its round shape, the second bomb was much more powerful than the first.

Although there are no definitive figures, it is estimated that 200,000 people were killed as a result of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A timeline of the most destructive ...

Donald Trump said nuclear weapons were the 'greatest threat to humanity', the deadliest one America has is much stronger than ...

Three days later, another nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. A week later, Japan surrendered. The bomb brought World War Two to a sudden end, but was it right to use it? The bomb was dropped to ...

Three days later the United States dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" on Nagasaki. Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945, bringing World War Two to an end. Tibbets said in interviews he did ...

Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing, who devoted his life to advocating for peace and campaigning against nuclear weapons, has died. He was 93. Fukahori died at a ...

The granddaughter of Paul W. Tibbets Jr. — the pilot who flew the bomber Enola Gay that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima ...

The number of visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum documenting the devastation caused by the U.S. atomic bombing ...