The atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II. A second bomb was dropped in Nagasaki three days later. The bombs forced the nation's surrender.

The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, effectively ended WWII, but took thousands of civilian lives. On August 6, 1945, the bomb was dropped on the city.

(Originally published by the Daily News on August 7, 1945. This story was written by Jack Doherty.) WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 6 – The most terrible weapon in history – an atomic bomb with … ...

INTRODUCTION: Review the students’ answers to the warm-up and provide a brief overview of the atomic bomb, the Allied strategy in the Pacific and significant battles prior to 1945.

On July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic weapon was tested in New Mexico in the United States. This plutonium atomic bomb was called Trinity and it marked the beginning of the nuclear age. Read ...

Three entire cities were built to make the atomic bombs that the US used against Japan in 1945, but they were so secret that they didn’t appear on any map.

The Hiroshima A-bomb blast, photographed by the U.S. military on August 6, 1945. The explosion was not the sole reason Japan surrendered, despite what American history textbooks say. (Hiroshima ...

Twenty years after the nuclear attack on Hiroshima, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, often credited as the father of the atomic bomb, said he didn't have a good answer to the question of whether ...

Seventy years ago on Aug. 6, 1945, World War II became a nuclear war when an atomic bomb leveled Hiroshima, Japan, and the world changed forever. Three days later, an atomic bomb destroyed the city… ...

The first atomic bomb was developed in Los Alamos, New Mexico, as part of a 1942-1945 research program, dubbed the Manhattan Project, that was led by the U.S. government.

Seven decades ago, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It almost instantly leveled most of the city and killed as many as 140,000 people. Three days later ...