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 ...

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. Many aging survivors ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

PBS doc 'Atomic People' features survivors who talk about what it was like in, Japan, when the atomic bombs dropped.

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

The bombing of Hiroshima was a necessary evil to save lives and should remind us to always pursue the least-worst option when ...