HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - In an effort to end World War II, the United States made an irreversible decision, changing the course of history: dropping the world’s first atomic bombs. On Aug. 6 and Aug ...

See rare WWII bomb crew artifacts and atomic veterans stories at The Highground exhibit, open daily until March 1.

This video tells the story of Operation Gunnerside, one of the most daring sabotage missions of World War II. A small team of ...

When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic bomb, there are a few obvious choices. July 16, 1945, was the date of the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, and has been used by some as ...

Japan inflicted deep wounds in World War Two but suffered two atomic bombs. The people in this program, from high schoolers ...

Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major General Kenneth D. Nichols, continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality traits and qualifications, led to choosing ...

An eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb tests in the Marshall Islands, along with some remarkably prescient observations about what they could mean for future superpower rivalries.

Hiroshima, on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in a ceremony of remembrance, but it was an event also aimed, psychologically, at preventing ...

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, ...

A teenage girl who tragically lost her life in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has been identified nearly 80 years later ...

Large parts of Dresden's Old Town were evacuated on Wednesday as experts sought to defuse an unexploded World War II bomb found during clearance work for a collapsed bridge. Some 17,000 people were ...