Only two atomic bombs have ever been dropped in the history of mankind, both by the United States in 1945 in the final stages of the second world war. The first hit Hiroshima on August 6 ...

The 55m-wide asteroid would strike the Earth with 500 times the energy of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. But the odds of ...

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...

Maybe it’s ironic that we called the ginkgo to be the witness to our community — this loneliest of trees, the last of its kind, made even lonelier by its refusal to die: 140,000 people were killed ...

HIROSHIMA--A large, ancient statue of Buddha ... located on the east side of the Atomic Bomb Dome here, on Aug. 4, 1950, as a symbol of peace. It was greeted with great fanfare at the time.

The mayors of Hiroshima ... War II atomic bombings, officials said Wednesday. In a joint letter to Trump, the mayors urge him to come and "listen to the testimonies of the hibakusha (bomb ...

HIROSHIMA--Tetsuko Shakuda was a frightened 14-year-old when she resumed her work as a conductor on a tram line in the devastated city of Hiroshima, just three days after the atomic bomb exploded ...

More specifically, we’ve recently been given a very rare glimpse into one of the secret labs where America used to test its nuclear bombs. This recent glimpse into the history of America’s ...

Neither attempt succeeded. In August 1945, the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When Szilard learned the bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima, he called it “one of the ...

Iran has charged a top group of scientists with preparing to be able to develop an atomic bomb within months. Iran is working to produce a nuclear weapon that is both cruder and faster ...

Billal Rahman is a Live News reporter based in London, U.K. He specializes in foreign affairs and U.S. politics. He joined Newsweek in 2024 from The Independent. He has covered the British Post ...