One of the most important projects of the 20th century was also one of the most daring and destructive, and it reshaped the ...

To date, only the US has ever dropped nuclear bombs on a population — in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Still, the number of nuclear warheads in military stockpiles continues t ...

On July 16, 1945, the US conducted the world's first test of a nuclear weapon. Less than a month later, two bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing about the ...

When atomic bombs struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 ... is the term used in Japan for those who survived the atomic bomb explosion. After their deaths, names are inscribed on memorials ...

NAGASAKI--For decades, atomic bombing survivor Nobuko ... symptoms of what is believed to be atomic bomb disease four years after the explosion. Oka had to fight not just the pain of radiation ...

its power will be 100 times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A nuclear explosion generates a significant amount of energy through a process known as nuclear fission.

At the end of last year, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a collective made up of survivors of the atomic bombings of ... the horrific aftermath of the explosion). Jiro Hamasumi: ...

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 ...