2 was a delayed detonation bomb dropped by U.S. forces, according to the Defense Ministry. In addition, many other similar cases previously confirmed in Japan also involved bombs fitted with time ...

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 ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration said development for a bomb 24 times more powerful than the one dropped on ...

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 ...

A series based on diplomatic documents declassified by Japan’s Foreign Ministry Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Here is a collection of first-hand accounts by “hibakusha” atomic bomb ...

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 ...

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

Eighty years after the Battle of Okinawa, the largest ground battle fought on Japanese soil during World War II, the threat of unexploded ordnance still looms over the prefecture. Despite decades ...

This is the moment a teenager unwittingly discovered a live WW2 bomb packed with 250kg of explosives on a riverbed - before crashing his underwater drone into it. Did you know with a Digital ...

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 ...