Participants in a Pilgrimage of Peace to Japan to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima ...

The western Japanese city was levelled on Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped a 10,000-pound plutonium-239 bomb, ...

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later brought a scale of destruction the world ...

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima near the end ...

The number of survivors of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dwindling 80 years later, but they are ...

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

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 resulted in Japan's surrender, ending World War II and ushering in the Atomic Age.

This summer, the NJAHS resurrected an exhibit from 30 years ago to remember the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic ...

On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

On the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, President Truman deserves credit for the first use of the atomic bomb in war. But he also deserves some credit for the fact that ...