On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...

A firsthand account written by a Hiroshima survivor nearly 80 years ago is finally ...

HIROSHIMA— Local officials plan to carry out the city’s first DNA analysis on remains from the atomic bombing, seeking to ...

Japan on Thursday marked 75 years since the world’s first atomic bomb attack, which killed around 140,000 people in Hiroshima and left many more deeply traumatised and even stigmatised. A second bomb ...

A trove of over 1,500 photographs taken in the months following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has been nominated for ...

HIROSHIMA -- Calligrapher Hiromi Kouchi is using her art to share a message of peace with the world. Drawing on a wide range ...

Japan on Thursday marked 75 years since the world’s first atomic bomb attack, with the coronavirus pandemic forcing a scaling back of ceremonies to remember the victims. Survivors, relatives and a ...

Nearly 80 years ago, Kiyoshi Tanimoto documented the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing during World War II. His manuscript was recently found in a U.S. library ...

Hiroshima, on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in a ceremony of remembrance, but it was an event also aimed, psychologically, at preventing ...

Born in 1937, Mori was 8 years old when he survived the Aug. 6, 1945 U.S. attack only 2½ kilometers (1½ miles) away from the blast. About 30 years later, he learned a little known fact — that American ...

Among nuclear states, Britain, France, India and Israel said they are scheduled to join the peace memorial ceremony.

Diagrammatic explanation of the evolution of the fireball in the 5 seconds after Hiroshima nuclear bomb detonation. Credit: Asset et al, 2024 The atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, by the United ...