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.

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

HIROSHIMA--Family members of a U.S. prisoner of war who died in the atomic bombing in Hiroshima only weeks after his aircraft ...

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 ...

With a blinding flash of light and an ear-splitting roar, the age of nuclear conflict arrived with terrifying and awe-inspiring force on August 6, 1945, changing the course of history, and killing 140 ...

HIROSHIMA—An American man whose uncle died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima visited for the first time this year, retracing his uncle’s final days and imagining how his life ended in the inferno of ...

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Barack Obama (L) hugs atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori as he visits Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan May 27, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo TOKYO, ...

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 ...

TOKYO — Hiroshima on Thursday marked the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with its mayor criticizing major powers for waging wars and urging them to stop ...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima,” his sympathetic story of six Japanese men and women who survived the first of the two atomic bombs America dropped on Japan during ...

This is Jihanki. I took advantage of Silver Week to go on a trip across Japan from west to east.The trip started in Hiroshima. Usually, I do a project where I 'view the city as a theme park,' but I ...