Eighty years ago, a weapon was used which would transform modern warfare and the entire world forever. Hiroshima, in Japan, was the target of the first ever nuclear weapon, dropped by the US Air Force ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This is a 1960 photo of a U.S. nuclear weapon of the uranium bomb Little Boy type that was detonated over Hiroshima in ...

August 16th. The day after the anniversary of the end of the war, I visited the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome for the first time ...

A teenage girl who tragically lost her life in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has been identified nearly 80 years later through DNA analysis. The 13-year-old victim, named Hatsue Kajiyama, died on ...

The scene of destruction after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb ...

The Hiroshima bomb was intentionally set to detonate well above its target to spread its radioactivity.

Sometimes inventions save countless lives. Sometimes they end just as many. Sometimes, they do both. The United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare Aug. 6, 1945. The olive-green ...