Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.

The printing press, light bulb, internal combustion engine and computer moved the world into a mostly better future.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. THE FIRST NUCLEAR reactor on earth went critical 2 billion years ago in ...

“I AM become death, the shatterer of worlds.” These words from the Hindu scripture, Bhagavad Gita, flashed through physicist Robert Oppenheimer’s mind as he watched the first atomic bomb test in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This is a 1960 photo of a U.S. nuclear weapon of the uranium bomb Little Boy type that was detonated over Hiroshima in ...

At 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, briefly became a furnace unlike any on Earth’s surface. The world’s first nuclear bomb test vaporized steel, copper, cables, ...

Sometimes inventions save countless lives. Sometimes they end just as many. Sometimes, they do both. The United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare on Aug. 6, 1945. The ...

A local man who was just seven years old when he survived the Hiroshima bombing is sharing his story, as it's his mission to ...

The wrecked framework of the Museum of Science and Industry in Hiroshima, Japan, shortly after the dropping of the first atomic bomb, on Aug. 6, 1945. Terumi Tanaka was 13 when on one fine day the sky ...

Editor’s note: If you’d like to pinpoint the instant when the world entered the nuclear age, 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on 16 July 1945, is an excellent choice. That was the moment when human ...