Enola Gay, a B-29 bomber, dropped the "Little Boy" atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The plane is on display at the ...

She would see it several more mornings in a vision, and even wore her glasses to bed to make sure. Hiroshima. It was not a good time in her life. She was newly divorced. Thieves had chopped down a ...

New START, and treaties like it, represent humanity’s uneasy attempt to coexist with its own capacity for destruction ...

NINOSHIMA, Japan (AP) — When the first atomic bomb detonated 80 years ago on Aug. 6, thousands of the dead and dying were brought to the small, rural island of Ninoshima, just south of Hiroshima, by ...

The giant silver bomber roared along the runway on Tinian Island in the darkness, passing the firetrucks and ambulances parked every 50 feet, struggling to pick up speed. “Dimples Eight Two” weighed ...

When it came to reporters who documented the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, John Hersey wasn’t the first, but his account was the one that mattered. Several journalists reporting for ...

The Hiroshima District Court Wednesday issued a ruling recognizing dozens of additional survivors from the US’s atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the end of World War II. The decision allows all 84 ...

Survivors of Hiroshima are a dying population. People who were 20 years old at the time of the bomb would now be 96. The survivors still alive were mostly children then, and they too are dying out.

HIGASHIMATSUYAMA, Japan — Pika. It means glitter or flash in Japanese. It’s what survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima remember from exactly 75 years ago. The flash that popped in a blue ...