The smell of burning flesh, unrecognisable bodies. More than 200,000 dead. Have we forgotten the sheer horror of August 1945?

On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and three days later, dropped another one on Nagasaki.

ReadIt: Eighty years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the books that reveal the truth behind the mushroom clouds and why we must ...

BBC science reporter Esme Stallard explains why today there is no trace of radiation from the atomic explosions in 1945.

Film director James Cameron tells CNN’s Christiane Amanpour he is adapting the book, “Ghosts of Hiroshima” by Charles ...

The influence of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki runs deep in Japanese popular culture. One of the most famous examples of this is Godzilla, a prehistoric creature awakened by the ...

“Maybe one day, the answer will come from your heart.” FUMIYO KONO, 56, who wrote a best-selling manga series about World War II, on how to process the devastation of her hometown, Hiroshima, Japan, ...

Nagasaki is marking the U.S. atomic attack on the southern city 80 years ago, with survivors determined to make their ...