When atomic bombs struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the blinding light and heat from the explosions left only shadows of ...

The total area burned in the recent Los Angeles fires is comparable to that of the primary destruction zone of a strategic ...

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 dropping of two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 remains the only wartime use of nuclear weapons in history. No one knows exactly how many Japanese ...

President Barack Obama was the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima in 2016. In a separate development, Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki has also announced plans to invite Trump to the city ...

Leaders of groups of atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki have called on US President Donald Trump to visit their cities. The head of a group in Hiroshima, Sakuma Kunihiko, said in an ...

A woman who survived the bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki recently chose to come out of the shadows and share her unique story. 94-year-old Fukui Kinuyo survived the bombings of both ...

In this series, The Asahi Shimbun traces the impact on children of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Their stories are told through interviews with their families ...

The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the air raid sirens ... Three days later, another nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. A week later, Japan surrendered. The bomb brought World War Two to ...

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 ...

When atomic bombs struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the intense light and heat from the explosions left only shadows of ...