A 500-pound bomb from World War II dropped by the United States on Japan exploded at a Japanese airport after nearly 80 years. One bomb out of the 179,967 tons of bombs dropped on Japan during ...

Why wasn’t Tokyo, Japan’s capital city, chosen as a nuclear target, while Hiroshima and Nagasaki were mostly annihilated? The ...

Many delayed detonation bombs dropped on Japan by U.S. forces during the war were set to explode between an hour to six days after hitting the ground. When such a bomb is dropped, the wind ...

What happened on 6 August 1945? In the small hours of a warm summer day, the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay flew from a US base on Tinian over the Japanese mainland. In the hold was an experimental ...

a former soldier of World War II who had passed through the devastation of the atom bomb in Hiroshima, closely referenced his experience in real photos of the ruins in post-war Japan to bring a ...

Photos were shot by 27 people and one Japanese organization between Aug. 6, 1945, when the first atomic bomb was dropped on ... RCC Broadcasting Co. and Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK)—jointly ...

WW2: How was D-Day ... of the events in the days and hours before the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

and a hydraulic lift would push the weapon up into the bomb bay. The mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945, marked the last use of an atomic bomb in combat. Carrier-based U.S ...