An exclusive excerpt from Ghosts of Hiroshima recounts the tale of one the few western eye-witnesses, a POW, and the guard ...

The Tri-Cities history is linked to the atomic bomb, after B Reactor at the Hanford nuclear reservation, shown circa 1944-45, ...

It is an act of historical myopia to pretend that the atomic bombings were callous. They were the cost of hard-fought peace.

It is an act of historical myopia to pretend that the atomic bombings were callous. They were the cost of hard-fought peace.

Kenichi Kubota, 58, a tree doctor, has continued an annual survey of trees that were exposed to the radiation in Nagasaki ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman's fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities ...

The newly-installed bell in Nagasaki’s Catholic cathedral expresses “compassion and respect” between US and Japanese ...

It is very easy to sit in the shade of the modern world—the world that the violent peace of 1945 created—and condemn the sacrifices that needed to be made to bring that world about.

As Japan marks 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the country's postwar identity is shifting.

On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and three days later, dropped another one on Nagasaki.

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 resulted in Japan's surrender, ending World War II and ushering in the Atomic Age.

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the U.S. nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the number of people who remember those fateful days is dwindling. CNN's Hanako Montgomery sat down ...