A Nagasaki temple after the second atomic bomb was dropped. Our inside view of Bockscar, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the second atomic weapon used in wartime, got me reading about the ...

Seventy-seven years ago, on Aug. 9, 1945, a B-29 (Bockscar) took off from Tinian, a U.S. air base in the Pacific, to drop a second atomic bomb on a Japanese city. That bombing, using “Fat Man ...

This 11-minute video takes us from the preparations of the Fat Man nuclear weapon, its loading onto the plane Bockscar, and the explosion of the bomb in Nagasaki. It’s a sobering look at this ...

Bockscar, the Superfortress on display at the National Museum of the Air Force, dropped the Fat Man atomic bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, three days after Enola Gay dropped another atomic ...

Then there is Bockscar, another B-29 that hasn’t shared in such controversy—at least not to the level of its sister aircraft. In fact, Bockscar is largely forgotten even though it carried the ...

The B-29 Superfortress "Bockscar" at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. On Aug. 9, 1945, the B-29 "Bockscar" dropped the “Fat Man” atomic bomb on Nagasaki, which led to Japan ...

Deep inside the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base here, visitors can come face to face with Bockscar, the plane that dropped Fat Man, the atomic ...

Bockscar was actually one of fifteen specially modified “Silverplate” B-29s that were assigned to the 509th Composite Group. While most B-29s were armed with eight .50 caliber machine guns in ...