6, 1945, when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, killing around 140,000 people, and December of the same year. The images depict the aftermath of the bombings, showing damage dealt to ...

Over the past few months, we have interviewed several surviving “atomic veterans” — those who were on the ground in Hiroshima ...

In 1949, the cold war became a nuclear arms race when the Soviets detonated an atomic bomb. United States military and ...

HIROSHIMA--Teruko Yahata was eight when she saw a blueish-white light envelop the sky over her home city of Hiroshima one summer morning, moments before the first atomic bomb explosion knocked her ...

It’s been 75 years since the US military dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. This bomb, along with a second dropped on Nagasaki three days later, led to the end of World ...

Although there are no definitive figures, it is estimated that 200,000 people were killed as a result of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A timeline of the most destructive ...

A potential explosion aboard a damaged Malta-flagged cargo ship carrying ammonium nitrate from Russia could cause a blast as ...

Shohei Tsuiki walked in front of diplomats from 25 countries including Pakistan and Iraq plus United Nations officials at the ...

A survivor of the atomic bomb attack on the Japanese city of Nagasaki during the Second World War has warned Vladimir Putin ...

Atomic bomb survivor Suemasa Sadako, 90, also shared her experience with junior high and high school students who are visiting Hiroshima from the northern prefecture of Hokkaido.

The decision to use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been considered the most important – and perhaps most controversial - event in twentieth-century history. It ushered in many of the major ...