The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.

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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A bomb exploded Thursday on a Syrian Defense Ministry bus in the country’s east, killing four soldiers and wounding others, the country’s oil minister said. Oil Minister ...

FILE - The first U.S. atom bomb explodes during a test in Alamogordo, N.M., July 16, 1945. The cloud went 40,000 feet in the air, as viewed by an automatic camera six miles away from the site. (AP ...

BEIJING — A man exploded a small homemade bomb outside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on Thursday, injuring only himself, according to police and an embassy spokesperson. Photos on social media showed a ...

Manhattan Project scientists working on the Thin Man plutonium gun assembly. Two atomic bombs nicknamed Little Boy and Fat Man were detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, effectively ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan (HawaiiNewsNow) - Koko Kondo was just 8 months old when an American B-29 aircraft named the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on her hometown of Hiroshima. At 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945 ...