The project's success led to the deployment of the first two nuclear weapons ... once bound by the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact. The existence of a third bomb invites us to examine what could ...

More than 200 came to Japan over two years starting in 1943. Nine were studying in Hiroshima in 1945. Eight were staying right in the heart of the city when the bomb was dropped on August 6.

The bomb is released. On detonation ... Distinguished Service Cross An unfamiliar voice crackles from Japanese radios. For the first time ever, Emperor Hirohito is addressing his people.

A US B-29 bomber named Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6 1945, in one of the final chapters of World War II. Historians have long been at odds over whether the twin ...

The ceremony is attended by Kazumi Matsui, mayor of the city of Hiroshima, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The US Armed Forces carried out the first-ever atomic bombing in history ...

Robert Oppenheimer, who led the race to develop the atomic bomb, has grossed nearly US$1 billion globally. But Japan had been left out of worldwide screenings until now, despite being a major ...

Now 86, she is eager to be among the first to see the film “Oppenheimer” at its delayed opening in Japan on March 29, hoping the biopic of the scientist who led the development of the bomb ...

After surviving the Japanese attack, Conter went to flight school ... “Don’t ever panic in any situation. Survive is the first thing you tell them. Don’t panic or you’re dead,” he ...

A Soviet invasion of Japan, which likely would have persisted ... power would later become the first to deploy an atomic bomb had we not first. Carlson’s argument defies his own previous ...

A dramatic video compilation of explosions and panicked crowds fleeing the streets swirled in social media posts about Iran's ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Lou Conter, last living survivor of the USS Arizona that sank during Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died at 102. Stay connected with the most up-to-date coverage of the ...