First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective ...

Join us as Sky HISTORY remembers the 80th anniversary of Nagasaki, the second city struck by a US atomic bomb.

America's incinerating of civilians in the atom bombs of 1945. Was that war, or war crime? asks Rosita Sweetman ...

On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

The story of the Atomic Age's start is a fascinating one about the power of invention and a chilling one about its ...

Eighty years after the first atomic bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, experts and survivors warn that the risk of a new ...

Nuclear weapons have not been used in warfare since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago this week.

It has been 80 years since the United States dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" over Hiroshima in Japan, killing tens of ...

Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging ...

The smell of burning flesh, unrecognisable bodies. More than 200,000 dead. Have we forgotten the sheer horror of August 1945?

As survivors of these weapons, we all agree that they can never be used again. So, when we hear politicians saying such ...

Avatar director James Cameron is set to make a film he fully expects will fail at the box office, such is his determination ...