On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people and a second bomb on Nagasaki (Aug. 9) killed ...

This is the first installment in a five-part series on the “atomic-bombed violin.” The stringed instrument, once owned by a ...

The solemn anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki come and go each year, with world leaders delivering poignant and heartfelt messages about what happened and expressing their general ...

This is the fourth installment in a five-part series on the “atomic-bombed violin.” The stringed instrument, once owned by a ...

It's been 80 years since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The attacks killed more than 100,000 Japanese civilians, poisoned a generation of survivors and ushered in a ...

HIROSHIMA -- Graduate students at Germany's prestigious University of Bonn have been translating video testimonies by atomic bomb survivors from Hiros･･･ ...

CONTENT WARNING: This article contains descriptions of nuclear weapons effects, including disturbing accounts of the victims. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever ...

When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic bomb, there are a few obvious choices. July 16, 1945, was the date of the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, and has been used by some as ...

Winter 1945 -- Two cities -- Feuersturm -- President -- Atom -- The Manhattan Project -- Spring 1945 -- The Target Committee -- Japan defeated -- Unconditional ...