The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.
Summary and Key Points: It’s remembered for one world-altering act: the B-29 Superfortress (check out our original photos ...
On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...
The toxic legacy of wartime dumping could take centuries to clean up.
In July 1945, the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis carried one of World War II’s most secret shipments: enriched uranium and ...
MARK LEVIN (HOST): I have in front of me, though, you know, the Potsdam Declaration, July 1945. I wasn't even going to mention this, but I have it. And then we have the Instrument of Surrender by the ...
Kelly meets Karin Tanabe and Victoria Kelly, longtime friends and filmmakers who explore the lasting trauma of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings in their new PBS documentary "Atomic Echoes." Karin ...
Oscar Masters, a 101-year-old Jefferson County veteran, shared his firsthand account of training for the atomic bomb missions ...
The discovery from the Trinity nuclear test site shows how extreme conditions can result in materials never before seen in nature or in the lab. The term “clathrates” denotes materials characterized ...
The Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is so large that it couldn't fit into the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's ...