In October 1951, the Soviet Union tested RDS-3 “Marya,” the first atomic bomb it ever dropped from an aircraft and a major leap in its nuclear program. Built with a composite uranium-plutonium core to ...

He lived through the first atomic bombing in Japan and then spent decades researching the identities of 12 American P.O.W.s killed in the attack.

North Korea warned this week that it might test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean, after saying the country had already ...

Earlier this month, Shigeaki Mori warned that the world was at risk of another nuclear attack over the wars in the Middle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 14—In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the ...

A Japanese atomic bomb survivor who spent decades researching American prisoners of war killed in the Hiroshima attack has died at age 88.

Departing in the predawn darkness of Aug. 6, 1945, a modified B-29, designated with radio call sign ‘Dimples 82', was carrying a single bomb. Enola Gay was about to change the world. Approximately a ...

Visitors to the Historic Wendover Airfield can now see how crews loaded some of the first atomic weapons during World War II, thanks to a newly reconstructed loading cradle installed at the site's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Enola Gay viewed from an elevated platform at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.Talia ...