One of the most important projects of the 20th century was also one of the most daring and destructive, and it reshaped the ...

Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor, who devoted his life for peace, dies at 93 - Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing, who devoted his life to advocating for peace has died ...

On the morning of Aug. 9, 1945, Ryu, 15 years old at the time ... It was on the morning that the atomic bomb detonated over the city. Her home was only 300 meters or so from the epicenter.

Leaflets dropped on cities in Japan warning civilians about the atomic bomb, dropped c. August 6, 1945. Aftermath of the August 6, 1945 Atomic Bomb blast in Hiroshima, 1946. Library of Congress ...

Photos were shot by 27 people and one Japanese organization between Aug. 6, 1945, when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, killing around 140,000 people, and December of the same year.

A 10-year-old boy from the Japanese capital of Tokyo has begun telling the stories of people who survived the 1945 atomic ...

The granddaughter of Paul W. Tibbets Jr. — the pilot who flew the bomber Enola Gay that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II — called the Trump administration flagging photos of the ...

It’s been 75 years since the US military dropped the atomic bomb on the ... damage the "Little Boy" bomb could cause when it was dropped on Hiroshima on 6 June 1945, but believed it was ...

She would see it several more mornings in a vision, and even wore her glasses to bed to make sure. Hiroshima. It was not a good time in her life. She was newly divorced. Thieves had chopped down a ...

The number of visitors to the 70-year-old Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum documenting the 1945 atomic bombing of the ...

The official US justification for the dropping of the two atomic bombs was to force the Japanese government to surrender, which it did on 14 August 1945. Some historians have speculated that the ...