A World War II soldier who fought in the forests of New Guinea and witnessed the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on ...

It’s been 75 years since the US military dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. This bomb, along with a second dropped on Nagasaki three days later, led to the end of World ...

It has been 79 years since an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and the number of ... students on the school grounds in the bomb's aftermath. Atomic bomb survivor Kiriake Chieko dealt with ...

Historians often suggest that America’s super-weapon forced Hirohito to surrender in 1945. Look closer, and the truth is more ...

Visible effects greater than Trinity test. Target Hiroshima.' Reporters sit in the Briefing Room. They are informed that a bomb with the explosive force of 20,000 tonnes of TNT has been dropped on ...

Former Hiroshima Mayor Takashi Hiraoka ... "We learned about the bombing and its aftermath at primary school, but I knew nothing about Oppenheimer," he said. Tachiyama added: "I learned a lot ...

Although not technically part of the peace park, don’t miss the iconic Atomic Bomb Dome. The ruined shell of the 1915 Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, the steel girders of its dome ...

On a recent Friday, botanic garden director John Berryhill, Takahashi, and three of her students—Astrid Johnson ’26, Claire ...

Seventy years ago, the US Air Force's "Enola Gay" B-29 Superfortress bomber dropped a 15-kiloton nuclear bomb ... lasting effects of the radiation brought the toll up to 140,000. Hiroshima ...

Kimie Kishi smiles at an event celebrating 50 years of the "Kinoko-kai" group for those affected by atomic bomb microencephaly, in Hiroshima's Higashi Ward on June 27, 2015. (Mainichi) MIYOSHI ...

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum documenting the devastation caused by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945 has welcomed 2 million visitors in the current fiscal year that started April, a record high since ...