Shigemoto was fifteen years old when a United States B-29 bomber, named the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb, code-named “Little Boy,” over his city of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Little Boy ...

Set to detonate about an hour to a week after impact, a bomb dropped in the later stages of World War II didn't explode for ...

Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of a group representing survivors of the US atomic bomb attacks in 1945 which was awarded this year’s ...

A Japanese doctor who survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki has left for Norway to attend the Nobel Peace Prize events ...

KAWAGOE, Japan >> Hopes are rising that more attention will be paid to a couple who created a series of large paintings ...

DHAKA: Japanese officials in Bangladesh are preparing the bodies of 23 soldiers who died during World War II to return them ...

On 6 August 1945, a US bomber dropped the uranium bomb above the city, killing around 140,000 people. Three days later a second nuclear weapon was dropped on Nagasaki. Two weeks later Japan ...

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 ...

The strategic bombing campaign was one of the largest in history, destroying Japan's industrial capacity and playing a key ...

Setsuko later left Japan to marry a Canadian ... British veteran Despite being almost a year after the bombing, on August 6 1945, he said the devastation in the country was still clear, with ...

But the Third Reich had already collapsed by July 1945 when the bomb was ready for use, leaving Imperial Japan as the sole surviving Axis target. RELATED: Truman Made the Right Call. And It’s ...