They were sitting on the veranda of their house in the Japanese city ... idea that it was an atomic bomb, nor that my father's factory was so close to where the bomb was dropped," Yamawaki explains.

Paul Tibbets was the aircraft captain of the Enola Gay B-29 plane that dropped the first bomb, the Little Boy, on Hiroshima ...

Paul Tibbets captained the Enola Gay, the B-29 plane that released the first bomb, Little Boy, over Hiroshima on August 6, ...

Farrell relays the report to Washington: the bomb will be dropped on August ... After the dropping of a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki, he has ordered Japan’s surrender.

But those outside the zone when the atomic bomb was dropped were not given such health certificates. The number of “hibaku taiken sha” who weren’t provided those relief measures in Nagasaki ...

Tuesday marks 79 years since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. In an instant, tens of thousands of ...

It’s convenient and easy to get around Hiroshima. The city has an extensive tram network that can take you to most of the ...

An atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, destroyed the city, killing 140,000 people. A ...

Japan will hold commemorative events on the ... According to various estimates, the explosion of the atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima, in one day killed between 70,000 and 100,000 people.

Though it was American scientists who built the bomb out of fear of the Nazis getting it first, it was Harry Truman who ...

Known as Edo under the rule of the shoguns — Japan’s military rulers — until ... Hiroshima The first targeted atomic bomb of the Second World War levelled the thriving castle city of ...

The St. Kateri Institute, based in Williamstown, Massachusetts, is raising money to replace a bell blasted from one of the ...