The first atomic bomb was tested 80 years ago at Trinity Site. However, most of us are not familiar with the Trinity Site ...

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.

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 ...

He tracked down the photographer and interviewed former showgirls who confirmed Miss Atomic Bomb’s stage name. But the woman’s real name still eluded him.

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 ...

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.

On 2 August 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter that would result in the Manhattan Project, and one of history's most significant, and destructive, inventions – the atomic bomb.