On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. That first-ever use of an atomic weapon killed an estimated 140,000 people in all, most of whom were civilians. Three ...

Lucy Benavidez Garwood was 13 years old when the Trinity atomic bomb test was detonated at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, 50 miles from her home in Tularosa, on July 16, 1945. A ...

THE USE of the newly invented atomic bomb at the end of the second world war changed geopolitics, physics, the nature of the American presidency, the human condition and the likelihood of the end of ...

Shortly after dawn on Aug. 6, 1945, Capt. Robert A. Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay, wrote in his notebook that the clouds below him were dispersing and the weather looked good for the rest of the ...

Talk about a powerhouse food. Like anything within its radius, food can also be susceptible to the effects of nuclear contamination, even decades after an event. But one food may actually protect ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Tsutomu Yamaguchi is known to be the sole individual recognised to have survived both atomic attacks in Japan during the ...

Survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki marched through New York on Sunday, chanting "No more ...

Shortly after dawn on Aug. 6, 1945, Capt. Robert A. Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay, wrote in his notebook that the clouds below him were dispersing and the weather looked good for the rest of the ...