6, 1945, bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, has sold for more than $31,000 at auction. The watch is frozen in time at the moment of the detonation of an atomic bomb over the Japanese city — 8:15 a.m ...

It exploded around 580m above Shima Hospital (Ground Zero) in central Hiroshima. At the moment of detonation, a mushroom cloud more than 12,000m high billowed up over the city. The bomb created a ...

A moment of silence was observed by hibakusha atomic bomb survivors, dignitaries and others who gathered at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park at 8:15 a.m., the exact moment the weapon detonated ...

Roy Daines had his memories of the war published to mark his 90th birthday - 12 years ago An RAF veteran who was one of the first British personnel to witness a flattened Hiroshima and survived ...

An RAF veteran who was one of the first British personnel to witness a flattened Hiroshima and survived two crash landings is marking his 102nd birthday. Roy Daines, from Essex, first volunteered for ...

In the hold was an experimental bomb, codenamed Little Boy. The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the air raid sirens had sounded twice that morning already. On both occasions the all clear followed ...

HIROSHIMA--Bells tolled ... A moment of silence was observed at 8:15 a.m., the exact moment the atomic bomb detonated over the city in a blinding flash that devastated the landscape and culminated ...

GOVERNOR Arnold I. Palacios, Lt. Gov. David M. Apatang and visiting members of the Hiroshima Prefectural Assembly on Friday ...

Ivy Mike was the world's first hydrogen bomb and had a yield of 10.4 megatons, almost 700 times stronger than the bombs used on Hiroshima. Ivy Mike's detonation was so powerful that it vaporized ...

A woman shows her injuries in Hiroshima; her skin was burned in a pattern corresponding to the dark portions of a kimono worn at the time of the explosion However, Japan did not surrender.