Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In May 1945, near the end of World War II, Germany surrendered to the Allies but Japan refused. To end the war quickly, President ...

On August 6, 1945, the atomic mission against Hiroshima began. The primary strike aircraft was the B-29 Enola Gay, piloted by ...

Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major General Kenneth D. Nichols, continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality traits and qualifications, led to choosing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people and a second bomb on Nagasaki (Aug. 9) killed ...

On August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped the first atomic weapon of war on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing tens of thousands of people. 80 years later, NBC News’ Janis Mackey Frayer traveled to ...

It was August 6, 1945 when the world’s first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The airplane carrying that bomb - built in Omaha, Nebraska. It was called the Enola Gay. It was hand picked ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of the remaining Japanese survivors are increasingly frustrated by growing nuclear threats and the ...