Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A blinding light like thousands of strobe lights — that's how Toshiko Tanaka described the morning, 80 years ago today, the United ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those who survived – known as Hibakusha – have carried their suffering as living testimony to the catastrophic humanitarian ...

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

In the morning of August 6, 1945, Tsutomu Yamaguchi was preparing to head home. The 29-year-old engineer had been in Hiroshima for three months on a business trip and was scheduled to return home to ...

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.

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

Editor’s note: This article was sent to employees of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1995, at the 50th anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I originally wrote the following ...

The solemn anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki come and go each year, with world leaders delivering poignant and heartfelt messages about what happened and expressing their general ...

In both his scholarship and his teaching, Nolan examines the disparate narratives that took shape after the bombing, as the ...

80 years on from the devastating bombing, we reflect on the Japanese non-governmental organization Nihon Hidankyo being announced as the winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. What does Nihon Hidankyo ...

Why are we asking for donations? Why are we asking for donations? This site is free thanks to our community of supporters. Voluntary donations from readers like you keep our news accessible for ...

Eighty years ago, in August 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incinerated by the first and only use of nuclear weapons in war. By the end of that year, approximately 140,000 people had ...