The ship that delivered the atomic bomb was sunk, and nobody came to look for it

On August 6, 1945, the atomic mission against Hiroshima began. The primary strike aircraft was the B-29 Enola Gay, piloted by ...
The Gazette

Remembering the first atomic bomb and efforts to achieve peace

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The first atomic bomb test in New Mexico on July 16, 1945 opened the door to the dangerous nuclear arms ...

Which Was the First War Fought with Nuclear Weapons?

Nuclear weapons drastically changed warfare. Learn about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII the only ...
The Gazette

‘Catching it on our tongues’: How 12 girls became the first atomic bomb victims

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. July 16 was the 80th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb test. At 5:30 a.m. on that date in ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

1946: The Bikini Tests and Public Opinion

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...
Albuquerque Journal

First atomic bomb test site, Trinity Site, open house canceled amid government shutdown

In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the public this year. Located on White Sands Missile Range, the Trinity Site is ...
HUB

Fallout: Eighty years later

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, ...