News

The mayor of Nagasaki has appealed for an end to the wars raging in the world on the 80th anniversary of the US atom bomb ...
The western Japanese city was levelled on Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped a 10,000-pound plutonium-239 bomb, ...
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 9, 1945, a U.S. B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" on the Japanese city of Nagasaki three days ...
At 11:02 a.m. Aug. 9, 1945, from 1,650 feet above Nagasaki, “Fat Man,” an atomic bomb fueled with Hanford site plutonium, was ...
Treated as outcasts for decades, these survivors and their children are now speaking out against global nuclear rearmament.
As Japan marks 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the country's postwar identity is shifting.
A woman offers prayer in the rain at the Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Park, as Japan commemorates the 80th anniversary of atomic ...
The United States launched the Nagasaki attack on August 9, 1945, killing 70,000 by the end of that year, three days after ...
Survivors hope their harrowing memories can help make their hometown the last place on Earth to be hit by a nuclear bomb.