Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has paid respects to atomic bombing victims in Hiroshima as the city marks the 80th anniversary of ...

Henry Stimson, Secretary of War in the Truman administration, defending the decision to use the atomic bomb (Harper's Magazine, February 1947) As the facts of the destruction of Hiroshima and ...

For an American visitor to Nagasaki and Hiroshima today ... without the use of atom bombs. Of whether the second bomb was necessary. Of whether part of the decision-making had to do with testing ...

President Trump said Monday that he disagrees with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's assessment from a few ...

"They'd been ordered to stay put, but when he heard about the atom bomb, he and his friend 'commandeered' a jeep and drove to Hiroshima, knowing they'd just be hanging out in the Bay for a bit ...

Ahead of the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima, a dramatic new account of the quest to build the first nuclear weapon... and the ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. U.S. President Harry Truman decided to use the atom bomb to force an unconditional surrender ...

In 2008, Japanese photographer Hitoshi Ohuchi made a remarkable discovery: the largest known photographic archive of Hiroshima before the United States detonated an atomic bomb over the city.

"Of course this is an amazing film which deserves to win the Academy Awards," said Hiroshima resident Kawai, 37, who gave only his family name. "But the film also depicts the atomic bomb in a way ...

Days after the 1945 Hiroshima attack, a second U.S. nuclear bomb hit Nagasaki in southwest Japan, killing around 74,000 people. The two strikes led to the end of the Second World War, and to this ...

I have never been to Hiroshima, but for a long time I have ... In Japanese, human survivors of the atom bomb are called hibakusha. These surviving trees have a name as well: hibakujumoku.