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

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

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

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

Prior to 1945, nuclear weapons were just an idea that could be discussed in theoretical physics literature. This changed when J.

After praying for victims of the original attack, the mayor called for the usual worldwide ban on nuclear weapons, and prayer ...

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 ...

It was a rare Earth metal. Often cited among the most destructive forces in history, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945 also gave rise to a rare metal never seen on Earth, per a ...

About 141 pounds of highly enriched uranium-235 was used to create "Little Boy," the first nuclear-fission bomb used in ...

Nuclear reactors and atomic bombs both rely on nuclear fission, but does that mean that a reactor could turn into an atomic ...

Locked inside glassy fallout particles, the strange alloy could only form in a nuclear blast.