The Japanese city, on which America dropped the first atomic bomb near the end of World War II, is commemorating the ...

Seeds from a tree which survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima have taken root in Leicester ahead of the 80th anniversary ...

The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 Japanese civilians, poisoned a generation of survivors and ...

On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...

Many aging Hiroshima survivors express frustration over growing global support for nuclear weapons as deterrence.

On the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, survivors continue searching for remains and healing—and ...

Twelve-year old Sadae Kasaoka (birth name Hiraoka ), a first-year student at a girls’ high school, was at home with her grandmother on Aug. 6, 1945, enjoying a beautiful morning and doing housework ...

Mayor Kazumi Matsui called on leaders to heed the lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and warned of the consequences of the ...

Northern NSW resident Cherry Watts was washing her newborn sister's nappies when her city was destroyed by an atomic bomb at ...

Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging ...

It is an act of historical myopia to pretend that the atomic bombings were callous. They were the cost of hard-fought peace.