Atomic bomb Coverage

Historians root out fourth atomic spy in the Manhattan Project

The world's first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexican desert -- a result of a highly secretive effort code-named the Manhattan Project, whose nerve center lay nearby in Los Alamos. Just 49 months later, the Soviets detonated a nearly identical device in Central Asia, and Washington's monopoly on nuclear arms abruptly ended.

William J. Broad, New York Times

NC man on board Enola Gay when atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

Seventy-three years ago the atomic bomb, carried by the Enola Gay, was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan, effectively ending World War II. One of the men on board that plane was a North Carolina native.