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

Patrick Penney's granduncle had a key role in the Manhattan project, and as well as being on the plane that dropped the ...

NAGASAKI, Japan — (AP) — The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that ...

Nakamura was 21-years old and was hanging laundry outside around 11am when the bomb fell on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. She ...

Participants in a Pilgrimage of Peace to Japan to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, ...

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

A U.S. military unit dropped dummy bombs in various parts of Japan as part of exercises aimed at training forces to gain the ...

The Mayor of Nagasaki Shiro Suzuki made a plea for world peace during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the atomic ...

Japan marked 80 years since the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, with survivors calling for a world free of nuclear ...

The Second World War had dragged on for more than five years by the time scientists with the Manhattan Project were ready to test the world’s first atomic bomb in a New Mexico desert. Once that ...