On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

An aerial photo of the atomic cloud rising over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. (US Library of Congress) The world changed ...

Japan has marked the 81st anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing with renewed calls ...

“Hiroshima and Nagasaki were never nuked,” reads the caption of a recent Facebook video that suggests both Japanese cities would be uninhabited if they had been bombed because of the half-life of the ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima — becoming the only country to ever use nuclear weapons during wartime.Watch the video above to learn ...

On August 6, 1945 — 81 years ago — the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.

Alexander Wooley, a former British Royal Navy officer, is the author of “Battleship Yamato: The Ship, The Myth, The Legend.” ...

Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.

On the morning the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945, resident Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a Methodist minister, was on his way out of town transporting a handcart of items to a ...

On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan. What many people don't know, however, is that Utah has a connection to this infamous event in world ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scene of destruction after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.Universal History Archive/Universal Images ...