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

The Halifax Explosion, fleetingly mentioned in the Oppenheimer movie, was studied by J. Robert Oppenheimer to predict the effects of the atomic bomb. Here's a closer look at Canada's many other ...

The first atomic bomb was tested 80 years ago at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. However, most of us are not familiar with the Trinity Site simulation explosion weeks earlier on May 7, 1945.

SOCORRO COUNTY, N.M. — On July 16, 1945, the sky above the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico was illuminated by the explosion of the world's first atomic bomb, marking a pivotal moment in ...