Twelve-year old Sadae Kasaoka (birth name Hiraoka), a first-year student at a girls’ high school, was at home with her ...

Eighty years ago, one nuclear bomb incinerated over 100,000 people in Hiroshima. Today, the U.S. has the equivalent of 50,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs.

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, remains a pivotal and controversial event in modern history. Beyond its ...

As we commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world is the closest ...

Ohio has more than one connection to the final days of World War II. Here’s what to know about the Bockscar bomber and the ...

On August 6, 1945, the US dropped the first nuclear bomb on the unsuspecting Japanese city of Hiroshima. This cataclysmic ...

It is an act of historical myopia to pretend that the atomic bombings were callous. They were the cost of hard-fought peace.

Revisiting the math and morality of the Allied forces’ decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

The number of survivors of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dwindling 80 years later, but they are ...

The Japanese city, on which America dropped the first atomic bomb near the end of World War II, is commemorating the ...

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. Many aging survivors ...