The way a war was fought changed forever in August of 1945 when the United States detonated the world's first atomic bombs on top of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But despite the massive damage ...

The threat of nuclear war, far from diminishing, remains a lingering shadow that shapes the political and military decisions ...

It is fine for Secretary of State Kerry and President Obama to honor the Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims. But in a historical and moral sense, any such commemoration must be offered in the context ...

The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs prevented that by abruptly ... The resulting loss of Russian lives and damage will be ...

In this series, The Asahi Shimbun traces the impact on children of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and ... said damage from a U.S. air raid in central Nagasaki was “beyond imagination.” ...

Nearly eight decades ago, the United States dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and, a few days later, on Nagasaki, Japan. That week in August changed the world forever; ever since, the world’s ...

The radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki today is on a par with the extremely low levels of background radiation (natural radioactivity) present anywhere on Earth. It has no effect on human bodies.

Hiroshima will start informing all countries and regions with diplomatic channels, including Russia and Belarus, of ...

This was unlike most school-age children of Hiroshima who were ... Man”, which was later used on Nagasaki. Bederson, now 95, said he “certainly” knew the damage the "Little Boy" bomb could ...

The central government has provided relief measures to victims, such as financial support for medical care for damage caused ... The plaintiffs in Nagasaki asserted that the Hiroshima ruling ...

The history of the world was forever changed by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After suffering more than 220,000 casualties, the Empire of Japan announced its surrender ...