Hydrogen bombs cause a bigger explosion, which means the shock waves, blast, heat and radiation all have larger reach than an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United States dropping an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945, hastened the end of World War II. Japan formally ...

Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about the growing support of global leaders ...

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 ...

TOKYO -- The atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later brought a scale of destruction the world had never seen. Many who survived the blasts died in the weeks, ...

Aug. 9 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1483, the Sistine Chapel opens in the Vatican. In 1854, Walden was published by Henry David Thoreau. In 1916, Lassen Volcanic National Park was established ...

Bockscar, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, is housed at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945, three days after the ...