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

A simple origami crane has become one of the most recognised global symbols of peace, resilience, and remembrance, thanks to the moving story of a young Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki. Her ...

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You’ve heard of the hibakusha, although you may not know them by that name. They are the survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 80 years ago this month. The word means, roughly, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Enola Gay viewed from an elevated platform at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.Talia ...

Roosevelt at the height of World War II The Lost Memoir of a Hiroshima Survivor Was Rediscovered. Now, It Will Be Published ...

Looking out over the skyline of Hiroshima, 96-year-old Junji Sarashina points out places from his childhood. "That was my grade school. Not too far from here," he tells his granddaughter, showing her ...

Flashing red-orange flames pulsating against billowing black smoke. A landscape of homes reduced to ash and twisted rubble. Vehicles transfigured into grotesque sculptures scattered across streets.

The first reports were met with disbelief. A single bomb with the explosive force to level a city; a bomb, detonated with such intensity it burned as bright as — maybe, even brighter than — the sun.

Donald G. McNeil Jr., a former global health reporter for the New York Times, is the author of “The Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons From 25 Years of Covering Pandemics.” I had dinner the other night in a ...

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper suggested the UK was well placed to lead global work on artificial intelligence safeguards.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Lisa Kogawa/ For The Times) You’ve heard of the hibakusha, although you may not know them by that name. They are the survivors of ...