His government decided to drop the world's first atomic ... long uranium bomb that weighed 9,788 pounds called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped ...

The first atomic bomb was dropped ... died on that first day. Estimates start at 70,000 but later estimates suggest the final toll was far higher, about 140,000, of Hiroshima's 350,000 population.

Smoke lingers over the scene of destruction in Hiroshima, Japan, just one day after the ... by the heat of the explosion. Nagasaki was attacked three days after an atomic bomb was dropped on ...

A photo supposedly showing the "atomic shadow" of a human and a ladder that was created when the U.S. dropped atomic bombs above Japan at the end of World War II has been frequently shared online ...

A trove of over 1,500 photographs ... I had not taken the day off, I would have been in the area around Hiroshima Station and would likely have been hit by the atomic bomb,” Yamada said.

Not until Aug. 21, 1945, did the military provide some 80 feet of film (close to a minute) of the atomic bomb blast at Trinity on July 16. “The explosion ... pictures just released from ...

Nagasaki Day: Just three after the destruction of Hiroshima, the United States dropped ‘Fat Man’, the second atomic bomb. This attack was made around 11:02 a.m. in the city of Nagasaki ...

Every year on August 6, people around the world observe Hiroshima Day ... an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, to end the war as soon as possible. The bomb, called "Little Boy," exploded ...

The destruction from the explosion spanned nearly three miles and destroyed much of the town. The first atomic bomb used by the U.S. was dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. Japan later ...

But to many Americans, the atomic ... ground in Hiroshima and Nagasaki — as part of a documentary about the generational toll of the atomic bomb. All share the same story: Taking photographs ...