They are the only two nuclear bombs ever to have been deployed outside ... more atom bombs were being prepared for shipment to Tinian Island. If Japan had not surrendered on 15 August, the US ...

James Nolan departed for the Pacific island of Tinian, carrying highly enriched uranium intended for the Hiroshima atomic ...

After being told of plans for the bombs, in June 1944 he was shipped to the Pacific Island of Tinian, where his job was to test ignition switches for the atomic bomb “Fat Man”, which was later ...

WSJ’s Niharika Mandhana traveled to Tinian Island, where the U.S. is reviving a vast World War II-era airfield. Photo: DVIDS A global look at the economic and cultural forces shaping our world.

On July 26, 1945, the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis landed on Tinian Island in the northern Pacific and delivered components for the atomic bomb that 11 days later would be dropped on Hiroshima.