The atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II. A second bomb was dropped in Nagasaki three days later. The bombs forced the nation's surrender.

Seventy years ago Thursday, the U.S. dropped an atomic uranium bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb, code-named Little Boy, killed 66,000 people, mostly civilians, and injured at least 69,000 more ...

The destructions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have long been justified, especially in the US, as actions which prevented World War Two from continuing. At that time President Harry Truman repeatedly ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" over Hiroshima, Japan, instantly killing 70,000 people. By 1950, 200,000 died.

Hiroshima's most famous ruin from the bomb is the dome in the city's Peace Memorial Park. A Unesco World Heritage site, it has undergone reinforcement work to make it more earthquake resistant.