-On August 6, 1945, the B-29 Enola Gay dropped the "Little Boy" uranium bomb on Hiroshima, killing up to 166,000 people. [caption id="attachment_22456" align ...

The plane is on display at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The museum restored the plane's nose art and included a recreation of the Fat Man bomb. The National Museum of the ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

Nearly two years before the attack on Pearl Harbour brought the United States into the Second World War, the US Army Air Corps asked American aircraft manufacturers to design a bomber that could fly 3 ...

Japan and the world commemorated the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, inaugurating a new era of human history. At 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber known as the ...

The first reports were met with disbelief. A single bomb with the explosive force to level a city; a bomb, detonated with such intensity it burned as bright as — maybe, even brighter than — the sun.

Suffering an arduous start in the CBI Theater, the B-29 would initially struggle to prove its worth, the victim of teething problems from its rapid development and production, along with supply issues ...