It was August 6, 1945 when the world’s first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The airplane carrying that bomb - built in Omaha, Nebraska. It was called the Enola Gay. It was hand picked ...

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 ...

More Americans are now eligible for compensation for health problems linked to radiation exposure from the atomic weapons program.

The first reports were met with disbelief. A single bomb with the explosive force to level a city; a bomb, detonated with such intensity it burned as bright as — maybe, even brighter than — the sun.

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, ...

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, ...

Editor’s note: This essay is paired with a second essay that offers a contrasting perspective about J. Robert Oppenheimer. On August 6, 1945, the day the atomic bomb exploded above the city of ...

Though the country’s nuclear arsenal has undergone no explosive testing for decades, federal experts say it can reliably obliterate targets halfway around the globe. By William J. Broad President ...

1. Solstice -- 2. A Letter to the War Office -- 3. The Plutonium Alternative -- 4. An Error of Consequence -- 5. Item Sixteen on a Long Agenda -- 6. Freshman -- 7 ...