Key Points and Summary – Eighty years ago this week, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, forcing the end of ...

August 6, 1945 marks a turning point in modern warfare and human history; it’s the day the United States dropped an atomic ...

A Hiroshima atomic bomb simulation shows the extent of the damage done to the city 80 years ago when the Little Boy bomb was ...

Watch as a little boy's hope for a brother gets wiped out. Summer Smith from Leeds, UK, films her three and six-year-old's ...

On a sweltering morning, hundreds of black-clad officials, students and survivors laid flowers at the memorial cenotaph, with ...

On the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, Eatherly piloted the Straight Flush weather plane which flew over Hiroshima to look for cloud ...

Japan observed a minute of silence to mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and to remind the world of the horror it caused, in a context of tension.

Just three months after the end of the war in Europe, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Ari Beser’s grandfather was on the two B-29 bombers that dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

Although nuclear weapons have thus served as a deterrent, the decision to unleash such a force of devastation was difficult ...