President Obama pays tribute in Hiroshima: ‘We listen to a silent cry’
President Barack Obama paid tribute Friday to the "silent cry" of the 140,000 victims of the atomic bomb dropped 71 years ago on Hiroshima, and called on the world to abandon "the logic of fear" that encourages the stockpiling of…
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Kerry makes gut-wrenching visit to Hiroshima site of atomic bomb
HIROSHIMA, Japan -- An emotional John Kerry said Hiroshima's horrible history should teach humanity to avoid conflict and strive to eradicate nuclear weapons as he became the first U.S. secretary of state to tread upon the ground of the world's…
Manhattan Project sites get National Park status
WASHINGTON -- More than 70 years ago scientists working in secret created the atomic bomb that ended World War II and ushered the world into the nuclear age.
This July marks the 70th anniversary of the first ever test of an atomic bomb in New Mexico. But a group called the Downwinders -- local residents whose homes were downwind of the blast site -- aren't celebrating the milestone.
At 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain Time on July 16, 1945, a 19-kiloton explosion was set off that would portend the end of World War II. Today, the site of the world’s first atomic bomb test is a National Historic Landmark. The…
Ray Suarez with author Denise Kiernan…
Meteor Explosion of Atomic Bomb Strength Injures 1,000 in Russia…
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Wednesday that the country's uranium enrichment program has reached a target of 3,000 working centrifuges.
