Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. AP/Wide World Photos ...

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The first atomic bomb is detonated near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. The successful test paved the way for the ...

On August 6, 1945, acting on President Harry Truman’s command, the United States did the unthinkable: they dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, aiming to force Japan to surrender and bring ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. US bomber Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the same as those which dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, heading to bomb ...

Japanese men carry a victim of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki in this August 1945 file photo by Japanese photographer Yosuke Yamahata. via REUTERS Eighty years ago, in one of the most consequential ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. THE FIRST NUCLEAR reactor on earth went critical 2 billion years ago in ...

We are all familiar with the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945; few know about a nuclear bomb that was dropped on domestic soil purely by accident. On the afternoon of March 11, 1958, ...

As a film manufacturer, Kodak’s role in America’s development of the atom bomb might seem unlikely. But this new book tells the story of how film manufacturers on both sides in WWII became integral to ...