On August 6, 1945 — 81 years ago — the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.

HIROSHIMA--Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stopped short of ruling out future revisions to Japan’s non-nuclear weapons policy during her visit here for the Aug. 6 peace memorial ceremony, choosing to ...

An investigative document written by the Allied occupation headquarters in Japan in 1948 revealed that 12 U.S. prisoners of war died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945. While the U.S.

Nearly 81 years after the cataclysmic atomic bombing of Japan that instantly killed over 70,000 people, scientists have discovered a bizarre and previously unknown material from the beach sands of the ...

American occupation troops witnessed Hiroshima and Nagasaki weeks after the atomic bombs. Fewer than 10 are believed to ...

At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the course of World War II and the history of Japan changed when the US military dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Now, on the 81 st anniversary of the bombing, an ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — More than 50,000 people gathered at this city’s Peace Memorial Park on Thursday to remember the victims of the world’s first atomic bombing and hear a renewed appeal for world ...

The logbook was kept by Enola Gay co-pilot Capt. Robert A. Lewis aboard the B-29 Superfortress during the Hiroshima atomic bomb mission on Aug. 6, 1945.

In August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.The bombs were dropped on Hiroshima on ...

The scene of destruction after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb ...

Okonomiyaki and Hiroshima’s Postwar ...