A photograph that has spread on Reddit and Facebook for years allegedly showed a bonsai tree that survived the United States' ...

The trailer for the book "Ghosts of Hiroshima," narrated by Martin Sheen, is here. It will be made into a film by James ...

A former accommodation facility for a U.S. atomic bomb radiation effects survey team quietly sits on Hijiyama, a small hill ...

Some Hiroshima children got a lesson in how water service was restored the day an atomic bomb hit 80 years ago.

The Hiroshima Municipal Government on July 16 opened to the media the vault at the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound containing the ...

Author and historian Iain MacGregor profiles a diverse range of players in his latest book about the first atomic bomb used in warfare.

Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb”, becomes a ghost, and every year, experiences the people's suffering ...

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were said at the time to be justified as the only way to end World War II. Seventy-five years later, legal experts say they would now be war crimes.

Bound for destiny and Hiroshima, the Enola Gay carried 12 men, hope, and the power for epic destruction. The silver airplane, named for the pilot’s mother, barely got off the ground that morning ...

More than seven decades after the U.S. military dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, effectively ending World War II, the site of the devastation remains one of the most ...

The G7 Summit in Hiroshima will be held from May 19-21. The "Group of Seven" (G7) is an informal alliance of leading democratic industrialized nations of members Canada, France, ...

On my way to Hilliard, I carried my copy of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima.” (My 1989 edition bears the cover endorsement “Everyone able to read should read it,” and I agree.) ...