NAGASAKI--A badly damaged wall clock that stopped at 11:02 a.m.--the moment the atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945--has suffered from the ravages of time at a museum here.

In August 1945 two atomic bombs were dropped over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

President Donald Trump seemingly compared his strikes on Iranian nuclear sites to the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.

A mere three days later, on August 9, 1945, a second American bomber with a baptized Christian crew would use the Catholic Cathedral in Nagasaki as ground zero to explode a plutonium bomb ...

The plane circled back, and at 11:02 a.m. on August 9, 1945, the United States dropped the “Fat Man” bomb on Nagasaki. The bomb caused an explosion 40 percent larger than the Little Boy ...

The bomb dropped on Hiroshima, "Little Boy," had an explosive yield of 15 kilotons. The B61-13, assuming it has the same yield as the B61-7, is roughly 24 times more powerful.

A chilling map developed by nuclearsecrecy.com reveals the catastrophic impact a nuclear bomb detonated in New York City ...

Sixty years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. We hear from a survivor of the bombing and the men who flew the B-29 bomber that dropped the bomb. [includes rush ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. In 1980, when I asked the press office at the U.S. Department of Energy to send me a listing of nuclear bomb test explosions, the agency mailed me an official booklet ...

But Nagasaki’s story is often untold. Three days after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, it set its eyes on Nagasaki. On August 9, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city of 263,000.

Seventy years ago, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan: Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945; Nagasaki on Aug. 9. With searing heat and annihilating force, the nuclear blasts tore through ...