HIROSHIMA--Having survived the atomic bomb that flattened his hometown of Hiroshima when he was nine months old, Kunihiko Sakuma has never forgotten the stain it left on him in the eyes of some of his ...

On August 6, 1945 — 81 years ago — the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.

A firsthand account written by a Hiroshima survivor nearly 80 years ago is finally set to reach readers around the world this summer after being discovered in a U.S. archive. The long-forgotten memoir ...

HIROSHIMA--A survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima whose photo as a young girl made her the global “face” of the horrors of nuclear warfare has died at 86.

On the morning the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945, resident Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a Methodist minister, was on his way out of town transporting a handcart of items to a ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — More than 50,000 people gathered at this city’s Peace Memorial Park on Thursday to remember the victims of the world’s first atomic bombing and hear a renewed appeal for world ...

In August 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the blast destroyed nearly the entire city. Buildings collapsed, and an estimated 140,000 people were dead by the end of ...

American occupation troops witnessed Hiroshima and Nagasaki weeks after the atomic bombs. Fewer than 10 are believed to ...

In 1955, Kiyoshi Tanimoto was blindsided on ‘This Is Your Life’ when producers introduced Robert Lewis from the ‘Enola Gay.’ ...

Leaflets dropped on cities in Japan warning civilians about the atomic bomb, dropped c. August 6, 1945. TO THE JAPANESE ...