On September 2nd in 1945, just 75 years ago, World War II was officially over. Many celebrated August 15th as the end of the war when Japanese Emperor Hirohito announced Imperial Japan’s surrender, but it took two more weeks until the 2nd before th…
On Aug. 6, 1941, P. Siomes, a German priest, was sitting in his room when the sunny, summer day outside was suddenly lit by an even brighter light that blinded him just before an explosion of sound and heat slammed into the building he was in.…
On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. U.S. President Harry Truman decided to use the atom bomb to force…
On July 16, 1945, the atom bomb was successfully tested by the United States. During World War II, the Manhattan Project was created to continue the efforts to develop a…
The Germans were the first to propose nuclear science, and some of their top minds advanced the field in the 1800s and early 1900s. That’s why it’s probably a little surprising that America had the first functioning nuclear reactor. And the first …
Fat Man: Hiroshima, Little Boy: Nagasaki. To date, these two bombings on the 6th and 9th of August 1945, during WWII, remain the only instance of the use of nuclear…
When Paul Tibbets died in January 2007, he had been retired from the Air Force since 1966. He was never forgotten, however, and never would be. He was the man who dropped the first atomic weapon used in combat against an enemy city. But instead of b…
In the days following World War II, the United States military began to develop an entirely different way of waging war and conducting itself on the world stage. It was…
On November 30, 1950, the United States was deeply entrenched in the Korean War after suffering a surprise attack on its troops. On this day, President Truman issued the thinly veiled…
The United States wasn’t the only country working on creating the world’s first atomic bomb during World War II. The British had their own atomic weapons program at the beginning…