Ron Kirkpatrick was aboard a Navy ship a mere 125 miles away when the largest bomb ever exploded by the United States went off.
On Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II, the U.S. B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb code-named “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan…
On July 16, 1945, the United States exploded its first experimental atomic bomb in the desert of Alamogordo, N.M.; the same day, the USS India…
On July 25, 1960, a Woolworth’s store in Greensboro that had been the scene of a sit-in protest against its whites-only lunch counter dropped …
In 1790, a site along the Potomac River was designated the permanent seat of the United States government; the area became Washington, D.C.
In 1952, he saw a hydrogen bomb obliterate an island. Two weeks later, he watched an atom bomb drop.
Willy Dietrich watched the then-largest hydrogen bomb detonation. Two weeks later, he saw another: This time, an atom bomb.
On Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II, the U.S. B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb code-named “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan…
On July 16, 1945, the United States exploded its first experimental atomic bomb in the desert of Alamogordo, N.M.; the same day, the heavy cru…
On July 1, 1867, Canada became a self-governing dominion of Great Britain as the British North America Act took effect.
At 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first combat atomic bomb, "Little Boy." It exploded 43 seconds later, creating a massive fireball that incinerated much of Hiroshima. Nearly 350,000 people were in the Japanese city that day, and most were civilians.
On Aug 6, 1945, during World War II, the U.S. B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb code-named “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan,…
On July 25, 1967, a full-page ad in The Times (of London) called for the legalization of marijuana, saying the law against the drug was “immor…
On July 16, 1945, the United States exploded its first experimental atomic bomb in the desert of Alamogordo, N.M.; the same day, the heavy cru…
On Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II, the U.S. B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb code-named “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan…
On July 1, 1535, Sir Thomas More went on trial in England, charged with high treason for rejecting the Oath of Supremacy. More was eventually …
On Sunday we asked our readers: Should the U.S. have bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II?
TOKYO — The announcement Wednesday from North Korea that it had carried out a nuclear test brought to the front lines of global attention a ph…
SEOUL, South Korea — After a series of escalating threats, North Korea has moved a missile with “considerable range” to its east coast, South …
A largely unknown but important piece of McDowell County’s – and possibly the world’s – history will soon be sold to the highest bidder on eBay.
The last of the nation's biggest nuclear bombs, a Cold War relic 600 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, was disman…
Arnold Kramish, a physicist, historian and author who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, died June 15 at George Washington U…
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's president yesterday dismissed a year-end deadline set by the Obama administration and the West for Tehran to accept a U…
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea warned yesterday that it will fire an intercontinental ballistic missile -- or even carry out another nuclea…