Atomic bomb

World War II historians still hotly contest president Harry S. Truman's decision to drop atomic weapons on civilian populations.

The elderly plaintiffs who fell ill after exposure to radioactive rain will now be given the same medical benefits as other survivors of the atomic blast.

Bestselling author Greg Mitchell debates Hudson Institute senior fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs.

It has been 75 years since any nation used a nuclear weapon during wartime.

Polling showing more and more of the U.S. population disapproving of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atomic bomb have become the basis for a generational narrative that obscures the long history of debate around the necessity of the carnage.

The vast majority of the Japanese city's hospitals were also rendered non-functioning by the nuclear bomb.

"All those people that were going to be killed? I was praying for them," Lawrence Johnston said at the time.

My grandfather, Dr. Ken Takeuchi, was the director of the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital. On August 4, 1945, he had talked to staff and encouraged them to arrive at work earlier. At 8.15am on August 6, when the atomic bomb hit, many staff were inside the hospital—his pep talk had saved lives.

Some thought A-bomb survivors "had the blood of the devil," according to one Hiroshima resident.

75 years ago, the world's first nuclear bomb was dropped. How did it change the nature of conflict, how do we now view the use of nuclear weapons and what will determine their use in the future?

On one occasion, asked how long it took him to decide to use the new device, he simply snapped his fingers.

The U.S. became the first, and to this day only, nation in the world to use a nuclear weapon against a foreign adversary on August 6, 1945.

"People were fascinated by the clouds, by this idea of unlocking secrets of atom."

An investigation by The Los Angeles Times and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism found the dome is barely holding it together as it is. Rising sea levels could tip it over the edge.

The yield of the first atomic bomb far surpassed any of the scientist's expectations—as did the fallout.  

Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami pointed out that nuclear bombs are "clearly" against Islamic (or Sharia) law.

The atomic bomb was meant for Kokura, not Nagasaki.

Now more than ever, they fear the threat of nuclear war.

The bombs that exploded in the air above the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the first and last use of atomic weapons in human history.

Less than 10 days before the U.S. decided to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, international news outlets misinterpreted then-Japanese Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki's comment, according to an NSA document.

Experts believed the image depicted one of North Korea's first atomic bombs.

The work reflects "the duality of creation and destruction as well as the beauty and disaster that our civilization has created."

The U.S. said it will refuse to sign the U.N.-sanctioned Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

This year, the country has carried out 10 missile tests troubling neighboring countries.

John McAfee says attacks are "harbinger of near-future attacks that will be more devastating."

The untold story of the wartime dash to obtain Congo's uranium, crucial to the atomic bomb.

Will become first sitting U.S. president since World War II to visit the Japanese city hit by an atomic bomb.

U.S. officials say that the satellite, which caused an international outcry, is incapable of any useful function.

The United Nations Secretary General was speaking ahead of an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council.

China is expected to criticize Pyongyang in a collective U.N. statement, but how far will Beijing go?