However, the most famous Fat Man bomb was the one dropped over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945, killing an estimated 40,000 people in the immediate aftermath. In early 1943, Oppenheimer reviewed ...

They weren’t subjected to fallout from above-ground testing, however. Instead, some of it was from the work done at the ...

The district was home to his elementary school, and many of his friends back then were killed when the atomic bomb was dropped over Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945. Over the years, Saito, 85, has been ...

Nagasaki survivor accepts Nobel Peace Prize and calls for world free from nuclear weapons - Tanaka says he is ‘infinitely ...

Exclusive: Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning group representing survivors of the US atomic bomb attacks in 1945, tells Adam Withnall in Tokyo that civilisation as we kno ...

(VOVWORLD) - During his ongoing official visit to Japan, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man and his wife on Saturday laid a wreath at Peace Park in memory of the victims of the atomic bomb in ...

He was just 13 when the 10,000lb atomic bomb “Fat Man” was dropped on Nagasaki on 9 August 1945, landing around 3.2km from his family home. Part of Nihon Hidankyo’s work is to record witness ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This "Historically Speaking" column contains the opinions of columnist D. Ray Smith based upon the research ...

Kyiv has rejected a report that suggested that it could develop a nuclear bomb quickly, using plutonium from spent nuclear ...