It's been eight decades since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The attack on Hiroshima was first. On August 6, 1945 -- 80 years ago today -- the crew of the U.S. B-29 ...

James Kane owned the Hillcrest Bar at the time of the bombing Fifty years ago James Kane was about to have his dinner when he heard a huge bang and the ground shook. He knew immediately that it had to ...

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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, ...