History Channel’s new documentary series, “World War II With Tom Hanks,” is scheduled to premiere Monday, May 25.

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will visit Hiroshima Prefecture on June 19 and 20 to mark the 80th anniversary of the end ...

The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.

WASHINGTON/TOKYO - Barack Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima in Japan later this month, but he will not apologize for the United States' dropping of an atomic bomb ...

A photographic exhibition at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in London explores “Hiroshima’s experience as history’s first nuclear target.” The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during ...

The first reports were met with disbelief. A single bomb with the explosive force to level a city; a bomb, detonated with such intensity it burned as bright as — maybe, even brighter than — the sun.

The Enquirer archives show the local reactions to the end of World War II. Paul Tibbets, the “Enola Gay” pilot who dropped the first atomic bomb, had been a pre-med student at the University of ...

Bockscar, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, is housed at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945, three days after the ...

The actor hosts a 20-part series on the History Channel that pulls off the seemingly impossible by offering a fresh ...

A soldier on a remote island who hadn't been told World War II had ended surrendered to authorities on December 18, 1974. The veteran served as a signaller during the war and was also a part-time ...

After Saving Private Ryan, Tom Hanks' new project can give it a new run for its money.

The Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is so large that it couldn't fit into the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's ...